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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...
...Haitian Senate had rejected a proposed constitutional change permitting proud, scheming President Dumarsais Estimé to be elected to succeed himself in 1952. Last week, after 10,000 dancing, drumming, pro-Estimé Haitians had paraded through Port-au-Prince and sacked the Senate chamber, the army moved in on Estimé. Forcing the resignation of the man it had backed for the presidency four years ago, a three-man military junta took over at the palace...
...steaming August day in 1946, thin, dark deputy Castel Demesmin rose in Port-au-Prince's Doric-columned, blue-and-gold-trimmed Chambre des Deputes, drew a deep breath and let fly with a hot blast of pure male chauvinism. The topic under discussion was a modest petition to let Haitian women vote and hold office. "All the miseries of this country," roared Demesmin, "come from the women. They have corrupted the public officers, the Deputies, the Senators. The Haitian woman has brought this country to ruin . . . the women who want the right to vote are so much manure...
...Under such bitter onslaughts (presumably approved by President Dumarsais Estime) the petition was beaten. For the next three years, members of the Ligue Feminine d'Action Sociale, which had gotten up the petition, quietly watched for another opening. Early this month they saw their chance and struck. Port-au-Prince was crowded with foreign visitors, including representatives of the United Nations and the Organization of American States. Under the guise of organizing a Women's Congress at Haiti's International Exposition, the Ligue Feminine launched an aggressive full-scale feminist crusade...
...born parish priest, scurried for a cup of black coffee. By the time he had returned with it, 'Alina, her paralysis gone, was able to sit up and drink. She was rushed off to the hospital at nearby Gonaïves, then moved 'to another at Port-au-Prince. There, some 600 curious Haitians visited the ward to gape at la revenante (the returned one). Many nodded knowingly and whispered tales of the walking dead. Said Alina: "When I died, I found myself in a place where a lot of people were talking and taking their pleasure...