Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation’s Glory Years by William Stadiem

Author:William Stadiem [Stadiem, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-345-53697-6
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2014-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

WHEN IGOR CASSINI COUNSELED EDDIE GILBERT TO GO TO RIO, IGOR HAD every intention of using his publicity wizardry and formidable connections to bring his client back to America legally unscathed. Given Gilbert’s fiscal malefactions, the case would be a huge challenge, but Igor loved challenges. After the frustration of his diplomatic ambitions in the Trujillo affair, he wanted to prove his and Martial’s preeminence in publicity as never before. He also had ulterior motives, in that his planned tour de force would serve two of his Martial clients and not just one. The second client was the Brazilian national tourist board. Igor saw Eddie’s great escape as a wonderful way to promote Rio as the most romantic, newly accessible city in the Jet Set world.

The Rio where Eddie Gilbert landed in June 1962 already had the potential to become the South American version of the Côte d’Azur, its continuing mystique aided immeasurably by the 1933 Astaire/Rogers classic Flying Down to Rio, which was actually shot mostly in Santa Monica. More recently, Rio had been re-romanticized by another film, Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus, a global hit set during the Carnaval bacchanal. Now that Pan Am had cut a multistop twenty-hour ordeal into a nonstop eight-hour sky party, increasing numbers of jet travelers were seriously considering Rio, none more than international female socialites of a certain age who wanted to partake of the rejuvenation magic offered by the grand master of plastic surgery, Dr. Ivo Pitanguy. If the aviation century had a premier fantasy destination, Igor believed Rio was it. He promised the Brazilian government that he would bring down more and more North Americans. Eddie Gilbert would be Igor’s inadvertent advance man.

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