Word: alfredo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name is Francis Phillip Wuppermann. Josephine Wuppermann, his mother, is, at 82, president and treasurer of Angostura-Wuppermann, sole agents for Angostura bitters in the U. S., Canada, Mexico and Cuba. Only three persons know what Angostura is made of, and a Wuppermann is not one of them. Mr. Alfredo Galo Siegert of Trinidad, grandson of the first man ever to brew Angostura, shares his secret only with a brother and a brother-in-law. Lest something happen to ail three at once, a copy of the formula is locked in a bank vault in Trinidad, another in a vault...
That was what boastful Welker Cochran thought of his principal opponents four weeks ago when he settled down at Manhattan's Capitol Billiard Academy to a three-week defense of his world's three-cushion billiard championship. In his first match, against left-handed Alfredo de Oro, 71-year-old Cuban who was the champion pocket-billiard player 47 years ago, Cochran led at 37-10-36. De Oro made a run of four that included a billiard in which his cue ball touched not the minimum of three cushions before striking the object ball, but five. Then...
Layton's eyes are not now quite so good as they were when he first got into the game with a top-notch professional. That was when Alfredo de Oro stopped off at St. Louis one afternoon 30 years ago for an exhibition match, and advised his practice opponent, a boy just out of short trousers, to give up pool for three-cushion billiards. After becoming the world-champion pool player, Layton did so. The diamond-shaped plates, now set in the rail of every standard billiard table, were developed from his system of studying angles. World...
...scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...
...darken the stage yet more, give Jarboro dramatic support, Impresario Alfredo Salmaggi got Negro Baritone Jules Bledsoe to sing Amanasro in the second performance of Aïda, said he would later appear with Jarboro in L'Africaine as well...