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...favor of the best and closest possible Pan-American relations," said the new ambassador last week. As a starter, Hedges, who describes himself as "married, but single'' (his third divorce is in the works), rented the finest suite in the Copacabana Palace Hotel and set out to make friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Ambassador of Fun | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

Deltec's success has inspired imitators; two new open-end investment funds and several Wall Street-type firms are now busily stimulating the securities market. From his marble-walled Rio office and his spacious Copacabana Beach home, Dauphinot is looking beyond Brazil for other back roads for his thundering jeep-herd to travel. Newest challenge: the undeveloped capital markets of Argentina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Wall Street in the Jungle | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...bored and went out.'' Other clubmen think that spectacular TV has satiated the public's appetite for shows, or that people simply do not dance any more (although dancing schools are jammed). Whatever the reason. Manhattan is down to two chorus lines (the Copacabana and the Latin Quarter, both of which float high on expense-account money); Chicago has only one (Chez Paree); and most other cities see big-show nightclubs only in the movies. But new music rooms are opening all the time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rise of the Music Room | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...knocking the cover off a well-stuffed (close to 200 Ibs.) Manhattan delicatessen owner. The victim was laid up with a cracked nose, broken jaw and slight concussion. The victim's brother, foggily shifting the locale of the brawl among various dingy recesses of Manhattan's brassy Copacabana nightclub, asserted that Bauer, known to his pals as "The Bruiser," did it. As far as Bauer would allow, it must have been two other guys. The victim, unsure about his slugger's identity, later blubbered through his battered lips: "You know how it is! Everybody was drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

...says Torch Singer Roberta Sherwood. "That is, from the women with a middle-aged spread. A lot of them had ambitions that were never realized, and I guess I look as if I am realizin' them." Thus, after bowing demurely to an ovation at Manhattan's Copacabana, Singer Sherwood explained the infectious appeal that in the last year has turned her, at 43, into the nation's biggest new nightclub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Middle-Aged Siren | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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