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...also likes to sit among friends in his cluttered Copacabana apartment and dash off a picture. "My painting," he says serenely, "represents what I've been since I became a man-a mixture of resolution, lyricism, sensualism and festivity." At 54 he paints with bold, broad strokes the things he sees around him. He roughhews his compositions, using an elementary and therefore easy-to-take sort of cubism. His colors are too garish to glow, his figures almost too heavy to breathe, but they please a good many people...
...Among them: Manhattan's Copacabana, E Borracho, Cafe Louis XIV; Los Angeles' Giro's and Mocambo; Washington's Harvey's, Chicago's Blackhawk, Philadelphia's Bookbinder's, Boston Latin Quarter, Miami's Copa City...
Though he is only 22, Singer Eddie Fisher has had plenty of chances at the big time. When he was 18 he got as far as Manhattan's expensive Copacabana, even though his talents were hidden behind a bevy of beautiful arm-waving chorus girls. Two years ago, he won an Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts contest. Last fall, Eddie Cantor heard Fisher singing at a summer resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates...
From the age of 14 on, most Indians go on a mass toot for every festival of the Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
...Copacabana's handsome square, thousands of Bolivian Indians, the men in grinning masks, the women adorned with sparkling silver belts and jewelry, staged another uproarious carnival. At a border village, scores of Indians were staggering around the patio of a house where a wedding fiesta was in progress. In a room off the patio sat the bride and bridegroom, immobile, glassy-eyed, unable even to speak. "They are seasick," explained a guest...