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They finished far ahead of such-popular favorites as Carmen Amaya, Carmen Miranda and Rosario & Antonio. Nobody questioned the justice of the verdict. After the ball was over, Raul & Eva returned to their four-to-six shows a day (divided between Broadway's Mexican Hayride and the Havana-Madrid night club) that earn them about $1,000 a week...
Horacio Guimares, a workman, lived in the village of Nilopolis,an hour's ride from Rio de Janeiro. Next door lived Ricardina Rosario da Silva, "Mae de Santo" (High Priestess) of a fetishistic, voodoo-like cult which Brazilians call "Macumba." Pious worshipers filled Ricardina's yard, clapped and stomped, chanted and sang, screamed and shouted outside Horacio's door...
Among dance teams the winners were childlike, ingratiating Rosario & Antonio, now on Broadway with Olsen & Johnson's Sons O'Fun. Rosario & Antonio (only 21 and 20 respectively) danced as children in the market places of Seville and Granada, later toured Europe and South America, reached Manhattan two and a half years ago as a specialty act at the Waldorf-Astoria's Sert Room. Their flashing gyrations and intricate footwork so excited their first-night audience that it buried them in flowers. Known as Los Chavalillos Sevillanos ("The little kids from Seville"), first-cousins Rosario & Antonio now want...
...loaded with beef and mutton from the brown seared grasslands of the pampas, stocking up meat faster than the British ships along the wharves can take it away. Eight million tons of wheat and 3,000,000 tons of linseed cram the new elevators of Buenos Aires, Puerto Nuevo, Rosario. The warehouses are filled with hides and wool. There they say what they want after the war: something better for the plain people of the world. Better education, more books, social justice, freedom to come and go, more shipping, the growth of home industries, lower prices, more confidence, better behaved...
...past he had started from various towns, 200 to 300 miles away. This year he started from Rosario, 205 miles above the capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro...