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...performers like Desi Arnaz, Jr. (playing his father) are sometimes bland, but the film remains an extraordinary, agile piece of work. It is a positive and sensitive portrayal of the immigrant Cuban culture, and the music reigns supreme throughout. This movie, as Celia Cruz would say, is pure "Azucar...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: Mambo the Night Away | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...Brooklyn Handicap, he set a world's record for a mile and a furlong (1:48.2), beat both King Saxon, fastest sprinter of the year, and Omaha, winner of the Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Week later, in the Detroit Chal lenge Cup, he beat Azucar, winner of last winter's $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap. Last week Discovery's job was the inaugural running of the Butler Handicap, at the Empire City track in Yonkers, N. Y., oldtime project of the late Grocery Tycoon James Butler. Many racegoers thought it would prove Discovery's hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Timely Discovery | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...rich from lumber and iron, who served President McKinley as Secretary of War. The General's Son Frederick was not too social to be an ardent American Legionary up to the time of his death two winters ago. Young Fred Alger Jr. took to horses and polo, owns Azucar, the gelding that won the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap in California this winter (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Amateurs | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

That few Santa Anita sportsmen had the presence of mind to bet on Azucar ("Sugar," in Spanish) was not surprising. Seven-year-old son of Milesius-Clarice, he was one of the best steeplechasers in the U. S. Joseph E. Widener bought him in England as a yearling, raced him abroad for two years, shipped him to the U. S., had him trained for steeplechasing, sold him to Fred Alger for $8,000 last June. When Owner Alger's trainer observed that Azucar was outdistancing flat-racers in workouts, they decided to race him at Saratoga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Santa Anita | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

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