Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capital this summer, U.S. oilmen have been filling Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador...
...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
Mambo syncopations were ticking in Cuban Bandleader Prado's head as long ago as 1942. and he wrote them into arrangements for local bands. Six years later in Mexico, he formed his own band, and the mambo beat began to catch on. Prado's flair for the wild style-something like that of Stan Kenton's modernist crew -sold him with the jazz buffs and his insistent rhythm with the dancers...
...time the Giants signed him, the ground was well broken for Negroes in the majors. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Jackie Robinson had been the pioneers, and the New York Giants, by the time Mays signed his contract, had already taken on Hank Thompson, Monte Irvin and a Cuban catcher named Rafael Noble.* Willie Mays was able to meet the test strictly on his merits as a ballplayer...
...Manhattan, Heavyweight Contender Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson swirled into the center of the ring and ran head on into a squall of right hooks thrown by Cuban Heavyweight Champion Nino Valdes. Knocked down twice in the second round and floored a third time by some catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Hurricane lost...