Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What lay behind all this TIME Correspondent Donald Newton told in a report from Rio on Brazil's life and hard times...
After a nasty winter (the daytime temperature dropped as low as 70°), Rio had had a hot spell. Most of the city has had only a trickle of drinking water for the last two months. The ocean is bluer and greener; the sky is red at sundown; the crowds are more amorous along Copacabana beach; the open-air streetcars are slower than ever. Smells, bugs and skin diseases have multiplied. So has griping...
...Sablon, last week's business at Montreal was old hat. Since March, he had kicked up a fuss in Hollywood, New York, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City...
...samba has been Brazil's favorite rhythm so long that even hymns and the national anthem now bounce in samba time. Last week in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...
...first took hold in Rio when a recording by co-author Francisco Canaro Argentina's "Mr. Tango," outsold the best carnival sambas. Canaro promptly rushed Chola up to press the advantage...