Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Santa Glaus & 5%. Many a Brazilian still preferred a flyer in Rio real estate, for a possible 200% profit, to Rockefeller's 5% projects. Others found it hard to believe that Rockefeller was not just trying to give away his money. Some xenophobes spread the story that the projects were just fronts for spying out oil deposits...
...centuries ago the vermilion hills north of Rio were black with men digging for gold. At the height of the California-size boom, the rich towns of Minas Geraes built resplendent churches, lavished fortunes on their adornment...
...love, with a brief, side-of-the-mouth laugh at locksmiths, conquered all. Francis Hitchcock, 39, balding younger brother of the late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony and were married again...
Emilio Razzore had made his circus his life. Like his father and grandfather, who started the circus in Rio 112 years ago, he had toured the dusty towns and cities of South America and the Caribbean, with his five clowns, his dancing bears, and the chimpanzees that rode bicycles. He had tigers and monkeys, and trained dogs. Best of all, he had two beautiful acrobats: his daughter Dolinda and his niece Guillermina...
Already running in the Los Angeles Daily News (with Chicago paragraphs cut out), it starts next month in Rio de Janeiro's English-language Brazil Herald. "They don't even cut out the Chicago items," says baffled Irv Kupcinet. "Must like the stuff. I can't think of another goddam reason for running me in Brazil...