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...bush league, that every artist worthy of his brush ought to take off for Manhattan and the majors. To prove that they can hold their own even in international competition, West Coast stay-at-homes this year decided on an all-out effort. Occasion: the third São Paulo Bienal, which Brazilian Millionaire Francisco Matarazzo Sobrinho has promoted to rank with Venice's Biennale and the Carnegie International as a worldwide roundup of modern...
...knocks youth, he went to work in 1923 for Anderson, Clayton & Co., big U.S. cotton merchants, as a cotton weigher at $110 a month. He moved up fast. "In 1938," he recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty hard until one night I says to him, Captain, if you mean that I don't drink...
...Adhemar," as his admirers in the industrially powerful state of São Paulo call him, has long wanted to "take over the management of Brazil, Inc." In 1950, however, he deferred to the late Getulio Vargas, instead took aim on 1955. Last year his ambitions suffered a crippling blow; running for governor in São Paulo, as a fitting steppingstone to the presidency, Adhemar lost. After that, whenever a reporter whipped out a notebook, Adhemar insisted that he would run only if drafted and thus forced to "bow to the will of the people...
...keep up a hospitable appearance of normality. In the Cabinet comings and goings, a new Finance Minister shouldered the burden of coping with inflation-ridden Brazil's nagging economic problems. Minister José Maria Whitaker is a pink-cheeked, white-mustached. 76-year-old Sāo Paulo banker with 13 children, 68 grandchildren, five great-grandchildren. Brazilians took heart from his promise to avoid "hasty solutions," and from his reputation as a hardheaded financier. A columnist called the appointment "an unexpected miracle," and the free-market cruzeiro climbed from 86 per dollar to 80, about where it stood...
...long-shot race for the Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded three federal Cabinet posts and the Bank of Brazil presidency for citizens of São Paulo state, plus a whopping federal loan to the state government. The Távora men talked reluctant President Café Filho into signing a written pledge promising Quadros all that he asked...