Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea for Lifeboat first occurred to Director Alfred Hitchcock. John Steinbeck wrote the idea into a story (still unpublished). With Hitchcock's help, Scripter Jo Swerling wrote the story into a screen play. The cinematic problems involved in keeping nine characters and their story dancing for two hours upon the pin point of one lifeboat were staggering. Result: a remarkably intelligent picture, almost totally devoid of emotion. Its characters are not so much real people, derelict upon a real sea, as they are a set of propositions in a theorem. Their story is an adroit allegory of world shipwreck...
Tropical Fireball. Blue-eyed, all-confident João Alberto started political life as one of the wildest guerrillas in all of Brazil's wild history. An expert, irrepressible revolutionist, he was often in hiding, was once caught and imprisoned for six months. He was driven into exile, struggling across the wilderness of the Matto Grosso to the Bolivian frontier. After lean years among the outs, he was one of the leaders of the 1930 revolution which anchored his chief, Getulio Vargas, in Guanabara Palace. Subsequent revolutionary movements failed, and João Alberto had much to do with...
...João Alberto took charge. When a worried U.S. mission arrived, his dictator-boss (untroubled by constitutional restrictions) had already given him power over nearly every detail of Brazilian economic life. If the Americans expected to meet a wordy tropical dreamer, João Alberto surprised them with his quality of calm decision, his drive and force...
...João Alberto has yet to prove that he can stave off inflation indefinitely. But, under his regime, matters have improved. With U.S. help, Brazil is producing many manufactures which she could not buy abroad. She has bolstered her defenses.* She recently announced a plan to pay off her long-defaulted foreign debt. She began to shift her agriculture away from disastrous, one-crop dependence on coffee alone. And she is supplying increasing amounts of strategic materials (figures secret...
...Angel. In his middle 40s, João Alberto is tallish, slender. A nervous tic periodically distorts his face. His kindly, scholarly bearing does not match his violent past or his present push. Brazilians tell some cynical tales about his appetite for money, and they remember his successful but intensely unpopular term as Federal Interventor in the rebellious State of São Paulo. He plays the piano beautifully, has almost memorized his favorite book, The Arabian Nights. He speaks English, is pro-American, has a son in the U.S. Air Forces. Among his pals: Sumner Welles and Carmen Miranda...