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...raise the needed funds, Chatô has turned the whole pressure of his 28 newspapers, five magazines, 19 radio stations and two TV transmitters on Brazil's other millionaires. Last week Chatô pulled off his flashiest fund-raising stunt: a fiesta on the cruiser Almirante Tamandaré (once the U.S.S. St. Louis) in Rio Harbor. Piped aboard from gigs and barges came Senators, ministers, governors and industrialists, together with their ladies. Chatô greeted them, fed them Beef Stroganoff and champagne punch, and made a speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Export Groton? | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

With Joe Crehore on one winning Art Noyes on the other, Cleary' s line represents possible the top freshman three some in New England. Flashiest player on the squad. Crehere stick handles skates and scores almost as well Cleary. He fee could be playing Every this year...

Author: By Johnny Ice, | Title: '56 Sextet Meets Belmont Today In First of Three Games This Week | 2/4/1953 | See Source »

Pieard put on the flashiest performance of the year in the nets for the Riskiest, bricking no less than 46 shots, 25 in the last period...

Author: By David W. Cudhea, | Title: Huskies Nip Crimson Six 4-3 in Overtime | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Trailer Life | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...Portugal's Strongman Antonio Salazar did their joint best to brighten the conference. The flashiest of Salazar's honor troops turned out for the guests. Lampposts gleamed with fresh paint. As a final measure of thoughtfulness the government clapped the city's 400 beggars into jail for the duration of the conference. But what helped most was some smart advance diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Substantial Achievement | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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