Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ilha das Flores, Brazil's Ellis Island in the bay of Rio de Janeiro, the Government has some 200 enemy agents interned. Most difficult of the lot are the Japs, who make a point of posing brazenly in bemedaled uniforms. Before they are captured, however, they mask themselves in ingenious disguises. Dusting a bit of sod off a Jap farmer, Brazilian police discovered what was purportedly General Yusci Tonogawa. Another Jap turned up in the uniform of the Brazilian Officers' Reserve Corps...
...Americas. The man whom Mexico sent on a visit to the U.S.-her Foreign Minister-was in sober truth as great a statesman and as big a figure in hemisphere affairs as any to be found in Washington. Ezequiel Padilla was not only the man whose eloquence swayed the Rio Conference to support the United Nations; he was the symbol of the coming of age of the American republics...
...picked a good libretto, but no easy theme for an opera. Kipling's fable relates (in the famed Briton's most roll-down-to-Rio prose) how King Solomon's loving wife, Balkis the Most Beautiful, saved her lord from the vexatious quarreling of his 999 other wives. As Solomon strolls in his garden he overhears a butterfly & wife quarreling. The butterfly threatens that if he stamps his foot the palace and garden will vanish in a thunderclap. Solomon, amused, calls up his Djinns, enables the butterfly to make good his threat. In the end Solomon...
...exhibition arranged by Architectural Historian Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, of Latin America's rich architectural tradition was running last week in the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University. Some 200 photographs and reproductions of drawings, arranged in showcases and neatly labeled, outlined the development of architecture south of the Rio Grande, from its massive stone beginnings in the temples of the Mayas to the international Classic Revival buildings of the early 19th Century. The exhibition showed the layman a number of things about the architecture of the Western Hemisphere that he never knew before...
...commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl...