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...Cangulo. By an odd quirk of politics, the man who succeeded Vargas had spent most of his political life opposing him. Getulio Dornelles Vargas was the son of a cattle-rich general from Rio Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei...
This year and next, when the returns from the Italians' big gamble with multimillion-dollar productions come rolling in, will tell the tale. But no matter what the climax, it is sure, in a vital respect, to be an anticlimax. The finest hour of the Italian cinema was rung in with Open City (1946) and tolled out with Umberto D (1952), and every man of talent in the Italian movie industry knows it. Few are willing to give up the prospect of prosperity, but most are sad and just a little ashamed to see their pictures become more...
...Foreign Service has also lagged in recruitment at the bottom rung. In two years not a single new junior officer has been hired, although in 1952 applications were invited and 2,701 were received...
...were unsuccessful. On a clear day, the bells could be heard for fifteen miles, and if conditions were exceptionally favorable, the radius of total destruction was reputed to be forty-two. House Master Julian Coolidge, who hardly shared President Lowell's enthusiasm for the bells, once complained that when rung they cracked his plaster...
HOTELMAN Conrad Hilton has rung up his second big capital gain in less than a month (TIME, Oct. 19). Since he needed cash for his new $14 million Beverly Hilton which is scheduled to open in 1954, Hilton sold the 300-room Town House in Los Angeles to the Beverly Hills Development Corp., then leased it back under a management contract. Sale price: $3,600,000, four times what he paid for the hotel...