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...Petropolis the fabulous, $13,000,000 Quitandinha ("little fruit stand"), most advertised spa and hotel in South America, faced failure. Suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's gambling king and owner of the place, walked in on Treasury Minister Carlos Luz and announced: "Well, I am giving you Quitandinha...
Chief target: alert, 46-year-old Joaquim Rolla, who controls a healthy chunk of the $300-million-a-year casino business. In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic...
Brazil has begun to feel that she is in the war but not of it. When Aviation Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado Jr. announced last week that the Brazilian Air Force had sunk its seventh U-boat, he symbolized Brazil's feeling. He said, by way of explanation for not waiting the customary 30 days to announce the sinking: "It is a great satisfaction to get part of our revenge at the scene of the brutal attacks which provoked a bitter hatred of the Axis throughout Brazil...
...Daughter of Joaquim Nabuco, who, with his great friend Elihu Root, created the scaffolding of Pan-Americanism...
...right in the Journals front yard. It was announced that he had acquired the feeble Providence News-Tribune (evening) which had been nursed along by Democratic Senator Peter G. Gerry as a political sounding-board to 25,000 pairs of readers' ears. Out went dignified, high-collared Editor Joaquim B. Calvo. Up went Ralph E. Bailey from his job as head of the News-Tribune State House staff to be managing editor. With the News-Tribune, Mr. O'Hara acquired an Associated Press franchise, a chance to go directly to Providence's 252,981 potential newspaper readers...