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Saludos Amigos (Jose Carioca, Donald Duck, Pedro; TIME...
Grizzled, fiftyish Pedro Candioti is one of Argentina's most beloved athletes. His specialty is not futbol, polo or tennis, but endurance swimming. Last week, for the 26th time, Pedro Candioti tried to realize his life's ambition: to swim down the Paraná River to Buenos Aires...
...past he had started from various towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro...
Saludos Amigos (José Carioca, Donald Duck, Pedro; TIME...
Combining actual color glimpses of South America with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American...