Word: copacabanas
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Superstitions have grown up around certain of the animals. The elephant (45, 46, 47, 48) represents death. When the press recently reported a suicide at 945 Copacabana Avenue, bicho players recognized the last numbers as the elephant's and rushed to place their bets. When No. 945 came up, those who had cautiously bet on o elefante won 23 cruzeiros for one; those who had plunged on all three digits of No. 945 were paid...
Last week, with a few new grey flecks in his crewcut hair, Baby was in Rio for a relaxing round of cabaret crawls and pre-carnival binges. Lounging in his suite at the Copacabana Palace, he boasted that business was better than ever now that the experts were gone. Actually, by slicing off a couple of his unprofitable enterprises, the U.S. advisers had done him a real service. His assets, he figured, were now higher than they had ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when...
...cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...
...Chic & the Egg. For five days expansive Adhemar treated Rio to a brand of shirt-sleeved, handshaking, backslapping, speechmaking politics such as the city had rarely seen. Dozens of taxis paraded him and his party to the Copacabana Palace Hotel, while sound-trucks prowled the streets announcing his presence. Well-wishers swarming up to his suite forced the hotel's chic patrons to use the service elevators. Beamed Adhemar: "These wonderful, wonderful people...
After that Frank Costello was poison in the big city. This year when he gave a $100-a-plate charity dinner for the Salvation Army at the Copacabana, eight judges, including Aurelio, a Congressman and all the top Tammany politicos turned up in dutiful droves. But the newspaper headlines that bloomed largely and blackly the next day had the same, exultant horror that might have been expected if he had spent the night plotting to cart off the City Hall...