Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antonio's tortilla-flat Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
Nobody had to tell the Amateur Athletic Union that many of the swiftest U.S. runners were Negroes. Yet the A.A.U. decided to hold its June championship track meet in Dixie, at San Antonio, where any Negro athlete would think two or three times about appearing...
...idea got prompt support from Manhattan's pinko PM and the Boston Record. Joe Yancey, well-known Negro track coach, predicted that most Negro athletes would not go to San Antonio. But the red-faced A.A.U. stuck by its guns, said that special arrangements had been made in San Antonio to house and entertain competing Negroes...
Last week, with a grin, William Primrose pulled the rug out from under these connoisseurs of tone. During most of his concert appearances in the past nine months, his valuable Antonio Amati viola (circa 1630) had stayed in its plush-lined case. The viola his audience heard was American (circa 1945). He had played it for more than 40 concerts to prove a point: "There's more snobbery connected with old instruments than with anything I know...
...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...