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This boom has meant one grande fiesta for some 4,250,000 life-loving Cubans. They are guzzling more sweet-tasting rum, screaming at more cock fights, buying more radios and automobiles (when they can get them), using more telephones. The party was pepped up last November when all salaries were boosted 10 to 25% by law (in April minimums were set at $45 a month in towns, $39 out-of-town). The lid almost blew off in January when some 400,000 sugar workers had their wages hiked 50%. Part of these fat raises have since been wiped...
...offspring are always going to earn a living "when we get twisted around." Their problem is gasoline. It costs money. Without it they can neither fish for bonita nor make Jonas' ancient clapboard truck run. When a sailor son (Jon Hall) comes home with a prize U.S. fighting cock, Jonas wagers the family furniture, the vanilla crop, anything at hand, on the fortune-restoring bird. The result is the blackest day in the history of the Tuttles...
...dance committee that had a lively, jump-loving clientele to provide for. And don't think Frankie can't play slow music well. I heard him do the blues last week, and when it was over the customers were just babbling incoherently in admiration. For them he was the cock of the roost, the salt of the earth, the cream de la cream...
...dawn broke clean and sharp. In their cages near by, two lions stretched, began their endless prowling. A caged cock pheasant woke screaming. A hare ran quickly over the brittle, dew-smirched summer grass. Stripped to the waist, two men faced each other -one young (32), lean and handsome, the other older (51), swarthy, heavy-shouldered...
...Yorkers, whom Mr. LaGuardia had been advising to keep calm & cool, decided that it was time Butch took some of his own advice. His friendliest critics, the Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram...