Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controls ten oil companies and pipelines, a Cincinnati soap factory, two Texas waterworks, sizable chunks of five Rio Grande Valley banks, two small newspapers, bus systems in Austin and Waco, a San Antonio wholesale house, a silverware factory in Mexico, an inland waterway barge line, the Dixie Bus Lines, a Dallas chili plant, and 22% of Henry Holt & Co., Inc., Manhattan book publishers...
...Rio, Carol and Magda played a lot of bridge, walked their dogs. Friends insisted that Carol had always wanted to marry Magda, and that she had always refused. After all, there was the chance that he might be King again some day, and what would Papa Lupescu have said? Last year, a U.S. friend, speaking to a critic of the couple, summed up their status: "For 23 years, she has been faithful to him. For 23 years, he has not looked at another woman. Which is more than you can say for yourself...
...correspondents well knew that the hotel, with its three bars and five dining rooms, its two swimming pools and its comfortable if chichi rooms, is the best in Brazil. What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles to Rio...
...Brazil is expected to stick by its choice. One reason: the delegates could be housed in one place, away from the distractions of Rio. Another: the hotel, its casino dark, has been losing $10,000 a month ever since the Government ended licensed gambling last year (TIME, May 13, 1946). Holding the conference there would be one way of partially repaying suave Joaquim Rolla, Brazil's former gambling king, and owner of Quitandinha...
Married. Carol Hohenzollern, 53, exiled King (Carol II) of Rumania; and Elena (Magda) Lupescu, 50, his mistress of 23 years; in an "in extremis" ceremony at her Rio de Janeiro bedside where she was thought to be dying of pernicious anemia (see FOREIGN NEWS...