Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sessions of the Brazilian Senate had become so dull that one day last week Rio de Janeiro's big afternoon newspaper Diario da Nolle sent a cub reporter to cover the sitting. He got a red-hot scoop. At 2:25 p.m., he spotted a Senator walking toward a desk halfway back on the left in the Chamber. That, was all he needed. The cub raced for a phone, gave the flash to his office: "Prestes is in the Senate...
Nowhere did Prestes explain why he had been absent, or mention rumors that he had been in Russia. The cub reporter and everybody else forgot to ask him where he had been. Best guess was that he had stayed right in Rio, organizing new front parties for his illegal Communists to take over...
...Rio, Francisco Negrao de Lima, the Brazilian diplomat who had tried unsuccessfully to mediate between Morínigo and the rebels, gave the Dictator only a few more days. Said he: "The end seems close...
...prospect had Mexican Movie Actress Maria Felix biting her nails. She was afraid that in her new picture, Rio Escondido, a bit-player would steal the show. The bit-player: President Miguel Alemán, playing himself when he presents Maria Felix as a schoolma'am an award for her fight against illiteracy. For Alemán, who knew Hollywood well in pre-presidential days and who is now anxious to give Mexican movies a hand up, it would be a screen debut. Said famed Director "El Indio" Fernandez last week, readying camera, lights and greasepaint...
...imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan Perón's press-badgering before the Rio Conference...