Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such banzai tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
...Maritime Commission, and the Interstate Commerce Commission, Federal Communications Commission, Department of State. Most recent sample of the boners that result: CAB last week blandly certified South Atlantic routes via Brazil to Pan American Airways, Inc. while the State Department was still pressing an uphill fight in Rio de Janeiro for a Brazilian agreement...
...years Bidu gave Rio a wide berth. Reason: in her last appearance there in 1940 she was booed and hissed by a claque. The claque had been hired, cried she, by a jealous operatic impresario named Gabriella Besanzoni. Bidu swore she would return only when Besanzoni was out of power. Last week in true operatic fashion, Gabriella - now retired -swooped backstage after the first night's performance. Gabriella, dressed in full-length ermine, gathered Sayao into her arms and kissed her on both cheeks...
...baseball's better catchers, but when he makes an error it is a beaut. The third strike he dropped at Ebbets Field in 1941 cost Brooklyn a World Series game. Last week Mickey decided that joining the Mexican League was his big error for 1946. He recrossed the Rio Grande so suddenly that his wife left most of her clothes behind...
...Secret Agents Bergman and Grant fly down to Rio and look into the suspicious activities of a German-controlled cartel. They barely have time to discover their love for each other when patriotism intervenes and demands that Ingrid marry Boss Nazi Claude Rains. Marriage lands her right into a Nazi nest and the threat of slow poison in her morning coffee. If anyone in the audience is not sitting up in his theater chair by this time he is Hitchcock-proof...