Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you will recall some recent TIME stories about Texas: the opening of Oilman Glenn McCarthy's $21 million Shamrock hotel in Houston; the successful financing of a 1,825-mile pipeline to pump gas from the Rio Grande to Manhattan; and a sketch of Oscar Holcombe, nine times mayor of Houston, where downtown property sells for $2,000 a front inch...
...Band earned its epithet early in the program with "The Seafarer," Haydn Wood's arrangement of sea chanties. Tunes such as "Shenandoah" and "Away Rio" were played in a fine, sweeping style in the Band's first performance of the intricate work. A smooth rendition of Jose Padilla's "El Relicario" was the highlight of the second portion of the program...
...recent winter circuit, Middlecoff began burning up the links at Harlingen, Tex., where he won the Rio Grande Valley Open. He was second at St. Petersburg, but won the Miami Four-ball (with help from Partner Jim Ferrier) and the Jacksonville Open...
...moviegoers who remember them in Flying Down to Rio (1933), the impersonation doesn't quite come off. For one thing, time-even in Hollywood-has not stood still. Ginger and Fred are no longer quite up to the soaring, smoothly paced routines of the '305. Also missing (with one exception: They Can't Take That Away from Me) are the romantic Gershwin tunes which used to lift and carry their pictures along. Nevertheless, what is left makes much better entertainment than most cinemusicals. Except for a few slow spots, e.g., a flat-footed Scottish number in kilts...
...GRAYDON Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...