Word: charro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...onetime barber and carpenter, Pedro Infante broke into the movies 15 years ago and quickly rose to fame as a last man with a gun or a girl, and a mellow man with a lyric. Dressed in his familia charro jacket and wide sombrero, he drew mobs wherever he went in Latin America -and most of the crowd was female, proudly claimed 14 children, legitimate and illegitimate. His wife Maria Luisa put up with his escapades for 18 years but he divorced her five years ago and married Actress Irma Dorantes. Just two weeks ago the Supreme Court nullified...
...prominent Washington bachelors were vacationing at the Del Charro Hotel in La Jolla, Calif, last week, and a local reporter asked one of them to give his opinion of the other. Said FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in one of his extremely rare personal endorsements: "Senator Joe McCarthy is an exmarine. He was an amateur boxer. He's Irish. Combine those, and you're going to have a vigorous individual who is not going to be pushed around...