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...first sign that the people of Brazil were not especially wrought up by Vargas' dramatic exit was the small turnout. Even in Rio, where talking politics is a year-round pastime, only two-thirds of the registered voters cast ballots, and after the polls closed unused ballots littered the streets. In some cities the turnout...
...right (Twelfth Night), Stevens teamed up last fall with topnotch Broadway Producer Robert (The Time of the Cuckoo) Whitehead and fellow Tycoon Robert Dowling (City Investing Co.) to form a glittering $1,000,000 triumvirate. Its aims: "To produce plays and operate playhouses" on a businesslike, year-round basis-and to take risks for art's sake as well as to make a profit...
With his wife and four children, he lives an active family and social life in a large Chicago house (two servants), and summers on his Brattleboro, Vt. dairy farm. He plays vigorous, competent, year-round tennis, is interested in his clothes and his food, keeps a good wine cellar, drinks orange juice mixed with soda, likes movies (but not "message" movies, because the movies' proper message is the "enrichment of fantasy...
...cabin cruiser for as little as $859. Among real outboard fans, it is not unusual to hitch up two motors astern for added speed and maneuverability. Another stimulant to the boom has been the creation of man-made lakes and waterways in Southern states where boating has become a year-round sport, thus helping to smooth out the seasonal peaks and valleys of the industry...
When a citizens' committee asked him to head the "Hire the Handicapped Week" for Houston in 1949, Anderson accepted, but only on condition that hiring the handicapped be a year-round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours...