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...exuberance has turned him into a one-man national musical movement (TIME, Feb. 5). Villa-Lobos wants to give Brazil a folk music. One day he gazed out of his office window in Rio de Janeiro. He gasped. "There," he exclaimed, "was my music, my inspiration. There was the Corcovado, the Sugar Loaf, waiting these millions of years for someone capable of reading and expressing the music of their unique lines. I had found the source of my new, truly Brazilian folklore, without needing to go to the people or to other composers...
...Other heights: Statue of Liberty, 151 feet; Christ the Redeemer (on Mt. Corcovado near Rio de Janeiro), 130 feet. Projected: San Francisco's St. Francis, 180 feet; Lenin (atop the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow), about 328 feet...
...Deal-the President of Brazil and the President of the United States." Then driving happily down to the waterfront with an escort of red-white-&-blue uniformed guards Franklin Roosevelt put to sea on the Indianapolis, while fireworks said farewell to him from the summits of Sugar Loaf, Corcovado, Gavea, Tijuca...
...Passion which he founded near his church in Kearny, N. J. Father Preston was well aware that on the Chilean-Argentine boundary is the great Christ of the Andes, 26 ft. high, that Brazil dedicated last year its 130-11. Christ the Redeemer, world's largest, on Corcovado Mountain near Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Oct. 26, 1931). Why not something even bigger for the U. S.-a bronze statue 150 ft. tall, to cost $500,000 which would be raised by the pennies of 80,000,000 believers of all sects throughout the land? Possible sites: near Washington...
...unveiled the world's largest statue of Jesus Christ, 250,000 pilgrims and nearly all the 1,447,000 inhabitants of Rio de Janeiro, toiled up last week to Corcovado Mountain, nearly half a mile above the city and its great harbor. Rain dribbled dankly. In Rome, 5,000 mi. away, Senator Guglielmo Marconi flashed three short-wave wireless signals, contacting a switch which turned on a battery of floodlights. Revealed was Jesus Christ the Redeemer, 130 ft. high, 92 ft. from fingertip to fingertip, arms outstretched. Visible 20 mi. away, sculptured by Frenchman Paul-Maximilien Landowski, the mammoth...