Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Star attraction of the season is the carnaval at Rio de Janeiro, which is some thing special even among the gay celebra tions of Latin America: a swirling four-day-and-four-night bender of lights, noise, tinsel and music that makes New Orleans' Mardi Gras look like a meeting of the Modern Language Association...
Early in the morning of July 5, 1922, a few hours after Brazilians had finished celebrating U. S. Independence Day (declared a holiday that year by President Epitacio Pessôa), the people of Rio de Janeiro were awakened by the boom of cannon, the rattle of machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry...
Divorced. Dolores Del Rio, 35, veteran Mexican cinemactress; from Austin Cedric Gibbons, longtime art director for M. G. M.; after ten married years; in Los Angeles. Same day youthful Actor-Producer Orson Welles, 25, announced he would like to marry Actress Del Rio...
...mileage of Pan Am & affiliates: 26,000 miles). Owned or controlled by huge Deutsche Lufthansa, they operate at a considerable financial loss. But their pilots fly for the Fatherland, not for pfennigs. Lufthansa and her keen-eyed brood are 1) the arteries of German propaganda taken from Wilhelmstrasse to Rio by the Italian airline Lati, 2) the training schools where Nazi pilots learn South American topography, gain practice in long-distance flying, 3) the outposts from which hemisphere defenses come in for Nazi scrutiny...
Ever since the U. S. Government, goaded by Nazi rivalry, began courting Latin America, cultural and educational institutions on both sides of the Rio Grande have run a low fever of Pan-American good will. One result: an unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships...