Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Road to Rio (Paramount). The Crosby-Hope-Lamour "Road" pictures, in the opinion of plenty of enthusiastic cinemaddicts, can lead anywhere and go on forever. Their comedy is more verbal than visual, but any kind of slapstick-one of cinema's lost arts-is rare these days. Because they fill some of the void, these loose-jointed spoof pictures at least guarantee a lot of good laughs...
...hunt did not end in the legislative halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...
...Rio's Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
...Communist big shots? Leader Prestes was variously reported hiding in Sao Paulo and streaking off for Montevideo, where a Latin-American Cominform is rumored for the near future. Already there was famed Communist Artist Candido Portinari. Last week at least, brilliant young Architect Oscar Niemeyer was sticking to Rio...
...news spread, one Jorge Blau wrote from Bolivia's northeastern jungle to say that he was Stephen's brother. Austrian representatives in Rio filed a claim. A search was begun for the heirs in Vienna. Last week, the La Paz courts were trying to decide what should be done with the fortune of this old beggar who apparently forgot that he had 8,000,000 bolivianos stored away...