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...Adhemar ("Brazil Needs a Manager") de Barros, 54, rich, flimflamboyant ex-governor of booming São Paulo, self-chosen candidate of his Social Progressive Party. Adhemar, as he is called all over the country, shows even less political philosophy than Kubitschek. Favored by his fellow big businessmen and detested by the intellectuals, Adhemar has nevertheless captivated many a working man by promising to make "Brazil, Inc." prosperous. "I doubled my inheritance," he says in a gross understatement, "and I can do the same for Brazil...
...cousin is the auxiliary bishop of Rio). Outside the northeast, Távora has apparently failed to capture much working-class support, despite 1) his promise to impose profit sharing on employers and 2) campaign help from one of Brazil's most gifted demagogues, São Paulo Governor Janio Quadros, who took a leave of absence to stump for Távora...
...later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living in the U.S. for 4½ years during World War II, he painted The Builders, which won this year's $4,000 Sao Paulo international prize; he also designed sketches for the two 30-ft. murals in the U.N. General Assembly building. An off-and-on Communist, he was eulogized by the French Communist Party as "our comrade...
WALDO COSTA JR. São Paulo...
...expected the relatively unknown Americans to walk off with a major prize at São Paulo last week. Aiming at a broad regional showing, the U.S. presented only one or two works by each artist, rather than the ten or more works which a jury expects to see before granting top honors. Bent on "making up for the injustice at Venice" last year, the ten-man jury gave the $4,000 grand prize to France's aging (74) modernist master, Fernand Leger (TIME color page, June 22, 1953- see cut), then bypassed 29 works by topflight British Painter...