Word: boleros
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...Lingering Predilection." From the outset, Stimson's major opponents were the two sometimes brilliant, always compelling men who ran the war from Washington and London. Though both Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill had early accepted the War Department's Operation BOLERO (a 50-division cross-Channel assault by the summer of 1943), "neither of the two had been fully and finally persuaded...
...Churchill's case, it was a question of caution. On three separate occasions he tried to sidetrack BOLERO for a less risky venture. The last time, Stimson wrote angrily in his diary: "As the British won't go through with what they agreed to, we will turn our backs on them and take up the war with Japan." In Roosevelt's case, it was a question of "some operation in 1942" and a "lingering predilection for the Mediterranean." The resulting compromise was the invasion of North Africa, a bitter disappointment to Stimson, but "the only operation that...
...taxi, saw the country, became an auto body finisher in Detroit - until his employers found where all the nicks were coming from - and topped off the U.S. phase of his career one night by leading Detroit's Fox Theater orchestra through a performance of Ravel's Bolero before a full house. He was the theater parking lot attendant, and the men in the orchestra pit had noticed him leading them from the stage door night after night. On this occasion they marched him to the podium and played his favorite composition under his baton...
...Showman. Last week Cugat, who is now a paunchy 46, signed a contract to play an eight-week symphonic concert tour of 50 U.S. cities for $5,000 a night. Top attraction at each concert will be Cugat's own symphonic Latin Suite in three movements (Afro-Cuban, bolero, and conga). If the tour pans out, he plans to give up nightclubs altogether. For the trip, Cugat will add a dozen violins, two cellos, two violas and two basses to his regular nightclub assortment of 32 marimba, maracas, fiddles and horns...
Raul & Eva Reyes claim to have introduced the conga as a ballroom dance. But their specialty is the rumba. Reyes rumbas come in no less than 24 varieties, including the son, guajira, guaracha, punto-guajiro, bolero, bembé, Afro-Cuban, danzón, danza and danzonette. To all these, Raul & Eva bring a sinuous genius. Connoisseurs have risen to cry that when they begin the beguine they absolutely finish...