Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years visitors to Cuba's National Capitol have plodded across the vast "Hall of Lost Steps" to gawk at a giant diamond in the floor. Last week it was gone from its star-shaped setting. On the Day of St. Dismas, patron of good thieves, a thief crashed the glass covering, chiseled out the 23 -carat shiner. * Alongside he jotted cabalistically: 2:45-3:10, then ap parently left by the Capitolio's front door...
...Sumner Welles in the U.S. and Vargas supporters in Brazil denounced the speech as intervention, loosed a fierce attack that probably made old New Dealer Berle look forward happily to resuming his Columbia University law professorship. Mentioned as his successor: Career Man R. Henry Norweb, present U.S. Ambassador to Cuba...
...temper. Once he held up a Montevideo concert for half an hour while ushers gathered up programs which said his real name was Stokes.* Once the silver-haired maestro walked out on the Mexico Symphony Orchestra after a fuss-&-feathers over an incomplete orchestration. Last week in Cuba, Stokie was in another skirmish with Latin Americans...
Sublime Music. To the press Stokie muttered, "boycott." Then he scurried to Cuba's bewildered President Ramon Grau San Martin, who assigned his secretary to act as mediator. Barked Stokowski: "The man has not yet been born who can dictate...
Winston Churchill, last in Cuba as an impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given...