Word: bandsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Anticlimactically ended was the well-publicized case of balding, bespectacled Bandsman Kay Kyser v. the draft. Turned down on his 1-A appeal, despite OWI-backing for his efforts as a war-bond hawker, the 36-year-old swingster was turned down by Army physicians (hernia and arthritis...
...applied for a license in Los Angeles. She had a little difficulty filling out the application, consulted her agent when she came to the space marked: Occupation. Said the agent: "You're a movie actress, remember?" The marriage will be the second for each: her first was to Bandsman Herbie Kay, the captain's first was to Louise Brooks, daughter of Mrs. Lionel Atwill, who was the first wife of General Douglas MacArthur...
...large, bad impulse. Ursula, still game after hectic questioning, haggard, her impulsive uncombed head under a badly tied turban, was freed on $1,000 bail. The near future held for her, first, the star witness part in an approaching Federal narcotics case. Those of the ex-bandsman's jive-plucking friends that could be reached mostly made the same comment: "Mike always was a damn good guitar player...
Vincent Lopez, bandsman and astrology enthusiast: "If the Japanese will study the planets they will see that Japan is the natural ally...