Word: conga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Check Please": around Town with the Gid 7:35 Opera Night: Verdi's "Otello" 8:30 "From Wall-Flower to Conga King"; six lessons from Madame in Dixon 8:45 "No Intervention for Now"; a talk by Professor William E. Hocking 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 An original play by the Radio Workshop 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Ravel--I a Sibelius--2nd Symphony 10:45 Crimson News
...shag is passe; the rhumba, conga, and samba are now in vogue. Hollywood has turned towards Latin-America for inspiration, talent, and color. The course enrollments in Spanish and Portuguese have increased noticeably during the past year. Americans are looking southward with benevolent smiles and shiny gold dollars. There is no doubt that America has gone the South American way for a very good reason: there is practically unanimous agreement that it is to our interest to keep Hitler and war from the Western Hemisphere...
Looking at the Western Hemisphere today, we find that between the United States and Canada on the one hand and Latin-America on the other there is an ideological and cultural split which could be narrowed but never bridged. Latin dispositions and ideas are as diametrically opposed as the conga and the square dance. There can be little in common between a democratic America and a totalitarian Brazil; Brazil, a country larger in area than the United States with an overwhelmingly illiterate population ruled by a complete dictator, can have little interest in preserving democracy. Economically Canada, the United States...
...Dance La Conga (Columbia). Four-disc set of congas played by the orchestra of Desi Arnaz, the supple Latin glamor boy of Broadway's Too Many Girls. An accompanying set of instructions by Arthur Murray is intended to show purchasers how to conga almost as well as Señor Arnaz...
...Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...