Word: copacabanas
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...past four months has become one of the hottest acts in the nation's gaudier nightclubs-Las Vegas' Last Frontier, Hollywood's Giro's, Miami Beach's Copa City. Last week Davis was packing them in at Manhattan's Copacabana, and columnists were hurling exclamation points. Variety's verdict: "In the main, socko." Yet Davis has been doing much the same act since before the war, sometimes without making enough money to buy a new pair of pants...
...conspicuously neglected to get rich. At 55, he has no savings to speak of. no income except his salary.* Instead of moving into the ornate presidential suite in Catete Palace, he continues to live, as he has since 1944, in a middleclass, three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Avenue. Three bedrooms are none too many: the President, his wife Jandira and their only son Eduardo, 11, share the place with Jan-dira's mother and sister, both widows...
...stripe suits, grey ties and white silk shirts. At home he likes to lounge around in pajamas, reading, sipping coffee and chain-smoking strong Brazilian cigarettes (Hollywoods). Younger-looking than most men of his age, he still takes an occasional early-morning dip in the Atlantic surf on Copacabana beach. Despite his extensive reading, he is less educated, less cultured than Vargas was-but he promises to make a better President...
...Reds planned to make further trouble before the October congressional elections, the new President settled down to run the government with a new, informal touch. The hard-faced bodyguards of Vargas days vanished. Spurning the luxurious palace quarters, Café Filho continued to live in his three-bedroom Copacabana apartment. When the usual motorcycle fleet arrived to escort him on his first morning's drive to the palace, he ordered the escort abolished. At least once in the first week he dashed home, stripped off coat and tie, and lunched in comfort with his wife and son Eduardo...
...With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even the cops prowled Copacabana beach with noisy prudence; they made no arrests the first three nights...