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Radio commercials are full of "roars, grunts, squawks, yaps, burps, and a mixture of adenoidal and . . . honey-chile voices." This is the considered opinion of a man who lives and scolds in the grand manner-Commander Eugene F. McDonald Jr., president of Zenith Radio Corp...
...source of manufactured goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
...mind to join the Latin American playmakers. A Town & Country survey showed "gay," war-passed Latin America first choice among most prospective U.S. travelers planning tours abroad. The immediate problem: how to get there? Not for some six months more would the big liners cruise to Santiago, Chile and Rio. The Pan American Highway would take automobilists no farther than Mexico (but some 200,000 would go that far in 1946). The train went only to Central America...
Those who detest escorted tours could pick regular commercial air service: Rio, now 31 hours from Miami, $765 round trip; Chile, 29½ hours, $828 round trip; Mexico City, 18 hours from New York and 7½ hours from Dallas, $223.96 and $91.66 for the round trip. (The introduction of four-engined equipment this spring will cut flying time, reduce fares...
...World. North and South America's record-breaking 14 cardinals were dotted on the map with the same sense of worldwide polity. Cuba, Chile and Peru got their first cardinals, while Brazil and Argentina were upped to two apiece. Most notable Latin choice: tall, taciturn, efficient Bishop Antonio Caggiano of Rosario, builder of Argentina's Catholic Action movement, who has often shown hatred of Fascism and antiSemitism...