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Springtime in the Rockies (20th Century-Fox) ends with a song called Pan-Americana Jubilee and attempts to be just that by whipping together 1) Latin America (Cesar Romero, Carmen Miranda and her band), 2) the U.S. (Betty Grable, John Payne, Harry James and his band), 3) Canada (large Technicolor hunks of Lake Louise, where the action takes place). The addition of an Eskimo and a penguin would have made the show still more hemispheric in scope, but Springtime in the Rockies, though it had its moments, is something...
...long ago Congressman Engel arose in the House, piled brick upon brick of accusation against Felix William Zelcer, onetime vice president of Seversky Aircraft Corp., before that proprietor of the White Horse Tavern in Manhattan; and the suave Miranda Bros.-Alfred Joseph Jr., and Ignacio Joseph. Congressman Engel's story...
Mexican-born, merchants for bombs, grenades, guns, other lethal wares of war, the Miranda Bros, were jailed in 1940 for selling munitions destined for Bolivia in violation of an arms embargo in the Gran Chaco War. Never idle, even in jail, the Mirandas arranged to handle sales for the Hayes Manufacturing Co. (airplane parts) of Grand Rapids, Mich. They got Hayes an order for parts from Brewster Aeronautical Corp. Their own commission was 5%. Out of jail, they joined Partner Zelcer in their Manhattan office, and arranged with Brewster to handle the sale abroad of its Buffalo fighters. They operated...
...said that the Miranda setup had anything to do with the Navy's seizure. But chunky Mr. Engel, who loves to lay bricks, knows that bricks that are piled carelessly atop one another will finally collapse. Around Washington this week ran the rumor that Brewster, first plant to be seized for other than labor troubles, might not be the last. The military had a cold eye on other plants where bricks were piled too high...
...dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting bounce. North Americans got their first inklings of samba rhythms three years ago, when seductive Carmen Miranda came up from Rio to shine on Broadway in The Streets of Paris, became really aware of it last spring, when she samba-sang and samba-danced in a cinema, That Night in Rio (TIME, March 24). Since then the samba has been winning more & more fans. By last week...