Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brazil first set the pendulum in motion when, during the January conference at Rio de Janeiro (TIME, Jan. 19 et seq.), she broke off diplomatic relations with the Axis. The pendulum came swinging back with the torpedoing of Brazilian ships speeding raw materials to the U.S. Last week, when sinkings had reached four (possibly five) ships totaling 22,231 tons and had caused 51 deaths, Brazil realized that hemisphere solidarity was grim business. She reversed the pendulum, with angry weight behind...
...Government started seizures by grabbing six leading German firms, including Zeiss (opticals) and Bayer (drugs). In Rio de Janeiro State it slapped a 9 p.m. curfew on Axis nationals, forbade them to travel elsewhere without salve-conducto, rounded up a few more potential troublemakers...
...product of Leopold Stokowski's 1940 pilgrimage to South America with his Youth Orchestra came to light this month: a pair of lively albums (Native Brazilian Music, Vols. 1 & 2; Columbia; 8 sides each) made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny...
With his All-American Youths Stokowski took a crew of Columbia recording engineers, mainly to make symphonic discs on shipboard. But while the ship was docked at Rio, Conductor Stokowski lined up Brazilian talent. In one mad session lasting a whole day and night, native groups filed on & off the boat. Results: these two albums...
Dolores Del Rio, her divorce from Cedric Gibbons final, planned to make a film in Mexico City. Orson Welles is making a film in Brazil. Halfway between the two places, said she, they will meet and "I will have an announcement to make...