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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heading North | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Exciting Place | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Cinemactress Lana Turner once danced a fast samba with Henderson, remarked: "Mr. Henderson dances sidesaddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Bamba | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...trips to Havana and Rio, hard-dancing Leon Henderson mastered the rumba and the samba. This week the ex-OPA boss was off to Guatemala where he was expected to pick up the native son. With other U.S. experts, he would refurbish Guatemalan economy, try to rein in the country's galloping inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Like Pregnancy | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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