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...good years in the 1950s as leader of the Mambo Kings. The band's biggest hit was Beautiful Maria of My Soul, which was first recorded in 45 r.p.m. and rose to No. 8 on the "easy listening" charts in 1955. Close but no cigar is the story of Castillo's career, the highlight of which occurred when he and brother Nestor were invited to play Ricky Ricardo's visiting Cuban cousins on an episode of I Love Lucy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hail Cesar | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...gravel driveway. From other directions, four cars race down a seedy strip of highway toward an abandoned gray house. A vice raid is under way on Houston's north side, and alongside the sergeant in the Chrysler's front seat, citizen Dan Hurlbut, smut buster, unsheathes a dark cigar and relishes the upcoming catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vanquishing Vice | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...from a pinstripe, commission-driven Wall Street professional, which is probably why his readers like him. He is a former professor of philosophy, carelessly dressed, with watery blue eyes and a fleshy, houndlike face. He is still doing penance for his 1987 performance, having vowed not to smoke another cigar till the Dow Jones average tops 2722. He tends to dwell on his losses, even though he started out with $8,000 in 1977 and by taking his own advice has boosted it to $422,000. Charles Allmon, a rival newsletter editor, suggests that Frank is a ringer, a "riverboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Las Vegas, Nevada Stock Tips and Slot Machines | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

What do Consolidated Cigar and the Richmond Screw Anchor Co. have in common? Both were once owned by the quintessential conglomerate of the 1960s: Gulf & Western. The diverse mix of businesses proved so unmanageable by the early 1980s that G&W Chairman Martin Davis launched a campaign to spin off more than 100 subsidiaries. Last week the company once known as Engulf & Devour said it will sell one of its few remaining divisions, Associates First Capital Corp., a financial services company. Davis hopes to use the estimated $3 billion in proceeds to assemble a world-class media and entertainment giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTERTAINMENT: Shedding an Old Skin | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...miracle work of Penn goalie Wendy DiDomenico, along with Harvard's close-but-no-cigar shots kept the score low, but the Crimson (1-0 overall, 1-0 Ivy) dominated the game from beginning...

Author: By Sandra Block, | Title: Laxwomen Post Victory, Trounce Quakers, 5-1 | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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