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...Republic, according to local artistry and whimsy. In Colonie des Vacances. a prosperous village of whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
...airport, a stocky little U.S. first lieutenant checked over his flight papers and manifest, then turned to leave. He zipped up his blue nylon flight jacket and cracked, "One more milk run." It was an old phrase that was being heard more & more. He clamped a cold and soggy cigar butt between his teeth, and strode out across the apron toward his big, twin-boom C-119 Flying Box Car for another round trip to Japan. There was no telling how many more he would make...
...Cigars & Arias. John gives full credit for his conversion to a lively, young (31) sculptress named Fiore de Henriquez who first arrived from Italy three years ago. A swarthy, husky type with hot brown eyes and a mane of jet-black hair, she lives in a littered London flat, dresses like a dock-walloper and, while she works, sings arias from her favorite operas between puffs on a cigar. For an old Bohemian like Augustus John, Fiore was just what the doctor ordered...
...Liga (Champ Butler; Columbia). A spirited hillbilly song about a cigar-store Indian who hides his longings beneath a wooden exterior. In the back ground, a quartet grunts...
...White Horse. Martí became the established political leader of all Cuban exiles. In the cigar factories of Tampa and Key West, he persuaded Cuban workers to join his Revolutionary Party and give a day's wages every week to the cause. Tactfully, he brought the proud generals of the Ten Years War under his command; incongruously, he haggled with munitions salesmen in New York hotel lobbies. More than anyone else, he touched off the revolt...