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Francisco ("Baby") Pignatari, 42, current No. 1 Playboy of the Western World, met Ana Maria de Carvalho, 18, during Brazil's carnival in lazy, colonial Salvador, capital of Bahia state. Disguised as an Arabian sheik, he was tossing ice cubes and confetti, brawling in nightclubs, when he spotted eye-filling (Miss Bahia, 1958) Ana Maria right on Salvador's main stem. Baby stopped, whistled, shouted, "Hey, beautiful!" But Ana Maria, blue-blooded daughter of a wealthy Bahian cattle rancher, industrialist and political potentate, sniffed: "Impertinent and presumptuous."
But a month after Baby discovered her, he asked for Ana Maria's hand in marriage. Papa de Carvalho protested that "Senhor Pignatari has lived a very full life, and my daughter is only a child," but he soon gave in. That night, Baby called for champagne, slipped a jeweled ring on Ana's finger. Then Baby flew off to Rome. The gossip that bounced back might have shaken a less eternal love: Baby arm in arm with Princess Doris Pignatelli. Baby dating Actress Rosanna Schiaffino. Baby dispatching red roses to former Queen Soraya of Iran. Baby dancing with his ex-wife Mimosa. Back in Rio, Baby found Ana Maria full of doubts, but he smothered her in flowers and loving attention. Last week Baby even set a wedding date of sorts—some time in May. i
Each of the two national party chairmen made a significant concession to the opposition. Setting aside a G.O.P. practice that has been observed almost invariably since 1946, the new Republican chairman, Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, announced that, personally he will continue to refer to the enemy as "the Democratic Party," instead of continuing the "Democrat Party" label applied by his predecessors. For his part, Democratic Chairman Paul Butler confessed to a high political crime: he has sometimes voted for a Republican. "But in each case." explained candid Ticket-Splitter Butler, "I have always prayed for forgiveness."