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Brazil has begun to feel that she is in the war but not of it. When Aviation Minister Joaquim Pedro Salgado Jr. announced last week that the Brazilian Air Force had sunk its seventh U-boat, he symbolized Brazil's feeling. He said, by way of explanation for not waiting the customary 30 days to announce the sinking: "It is a great satisfaction to get part of our revenge at the scene of the brutal attacks which provoked a bitter hatred of the Axis throughout Brazil...
This is a description of the work of the late great Uruguayan painter Pedro Figari, one of whose pictures was on view last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Spatially speaking, Figari was only a single small item in a splendiferous show of the Museum's 224 new acquisitions of modern, Latin American art.* No institution has a finer collection of work from south of the border...
...Pedro Figari, well known in the La Plata capitals and European art circles, almost unheard-of in North America* never had any academic training. Born in Uruguay in 1861 of Italian parentage, he studied law, traveled in Europe, served in the Montevideo Parliament, in 1900 became attorney for the Bank of the Republic...
...sunny San Pedro, one of the U.S. fish capitals, the harbor was hectic with production. The white-hulled tuna clipper Long Island warped in with the season's first catch of bluefin tuna-a whopping 90 tons, worth about $20,000. Grizzled fishermen, speeding their net mending, talked about the biggest tuna run ever, wondered if prices would go above the present...
...week's end a female compatriot of Pedro's tried a less ambitious but nonetheless staggering swim-the 42 windy miles down the Paraná from Campana to San Fernando, at the head of the Estuary. She was Mrs. Soledad Bueno de Gutierrez, 38, swimming teacher in a Buenos Aires department store. She made it-in 17 hours, 38 minutes...