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...hottest politician in Brazil today is a swart, heavyset, pulsating man named Adhemar Pereira de Barros. "Our Adhemar," as his admirers call him, is governor of the state of São Paulo, Brazil's richest province, home of its heavy industry, and exporter of 60% of its cotton and coffee. Its capital city of São Paulo is the fastest growing big city in the world...
...Sicily there is no bloodier bandit than Salvatore Giuliano. A swart, 25-year-old ex-black marketeer, who began his career with the killing of a customs officer, Salvatore has totted up a spine-chilling record of robbery, blackmail, murder and kidnaping. Yet to many a Sicilian, Giuliano is a hero as revered as Robin Hood. Sicilian police have long since promised not to bother him provided that he kills no policemen. On Palermo's walls, signs calling for "Giuliano for President" are common sights...
...Moscow's flag-bedecked Bolshoi Theater the keynote address of the anniversary was delivered by the man whom many think Stalin has picked as his successor: swart, stocky Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov, 50. He is secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, and is also chairman of the Supreme Soviet (Russian parliament), boss of Leningrad, colonel-general in the Russian Army and member of the potent, 14-man Politburo...
Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...
...Swart, handsome Jim Rob ("Bob") Wills, 40, son of a Texas sharecropping fiddler, has fiddled since he was ten. At 17 he preached the gospel at rural revival meetings, then joined a gang of promising Texas badmen, two of whom were eventually sentenced to life terms. (One of his record best-sellers is The Convict and the Rose.) Wills and a group of pick-up musicians, calling themselves the "Lightcrust Doughboys," played on W. Lee (Pass the Biscuits, Pappy) O'Daniel's radio show. Wills set to music O'Daniel's Beautiful Texas and Your...