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...Paulo. In their air-conditioned board room five stories above Rio's Avenida Wilson, the conferees worked on, unperturbed by the Red heat...
Almost nightly, when Baby is in Sāo Paulo, his Cadillac pulls up outside a plush nightclub known as the Oasis. The Oasis' bartender keeps a special highball glass ready with "Baby" etched on the side. There, not long ago, Baby used a whisky bottle to etch some less formal inscriptions on an uncooperative trombonist's brow...
Whistle at the Door. After one Oasis evening. Baby and a brunette playgirl, roaring down a Sāo Paulo road at 70 miles an hour, veered away from an-unmarked excavation, slowed down with brakes screeching, then smacked into a telephone pole. Peering past the sedan's crumpled nose, the girl complained: "The telephone pole is still standing." Without a word Baby backed up, stepped on the gas and demolished both pole and Cadillac...
...Italian-born father started him at 19 in the family metals plant in Sāo Paulo. Not long afterwards, the father died. Taking over the business, Baby resolved to build an industrial empire. He drove himself hard from 7:30 a.m. till the Oasis opened at night. He showed an extraordinary mechanical bent. He wore old clothes, worked in the shops, ate with the men. His war-booming Laminaçāo.ao Nacional de Matais grew into the largest non-ferrous rolling mill in South America, employing 20 times as many men and doing 40 times as much business...
...ever been. Said Baby: "1949 was a good year for me. Gross sales won't be far from $25 million when the figures are added up." Before he left Rio Baby hoped that $1,000,000 worth of new U.S. equipment would reach his Sāo Paulo brassworks, and that $2,000,000 would come through from Aluminium Ltd., of Canada. With the money he plans to open an aluminum smelter in Minas Gerais...