Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Latin America also has three news bureaus - in Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires - a full-time roving correspondent, and 12 stringers strategically placed from Puerto Rico to Chile. Their job, of course, is to watch for news stories of more than local interest, cover special assignments for TIME'S editors, answer their queries, and keep them filled in on what people in their sections are doing, saying and thinking. This they do to the extent of some 200,000 words a month...
...Italy, Ponzi got on the good side of Mussolini's Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
...skits and spiels, which are the backbone of a prosperous revue, break the back of this one. The least trying sketches garner what laughs they get not through witty comments but through waggish props. And Co-Star Bert Wheeler (Rio Rita), chatting before the curtain, is seldom much fun. His patter droops...
...president of Dallas' Rio Grande National Life Insurance Co. gave out an exuberant shout. "This is a great world," cried Robert Baxter, "and the U.S. is the greatest country in the world-and Texas is the greatest state in the U.S. and Dallas is the greatest city in Texas and the Rio Grande is the greatest insurance company in Dallas." This bit of bragging, down to the last note in its descending scale, was a fairly faithful expression of the exuberance and confidence of businessmen in 1948. They thought that the U.S. had plenty to brag about...
...office. According to Motion Picture Herald, none of 1948's top-grossing films appeared on the "best" lists. Ignoring the critics, as usual, most moviegoers flocked to see The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer, Cass Timberlane, Green Dolphin Street, Life with Father, Mother Wore Tights, Road to Rio and Unconquered...