Word: cubanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next six rounds it was a boxer's fight, a brilliant display of punch and counter without knockdowns or clinches. After that, it was all Gavilan. The judges' decision, while hordes of Gavilan's rabid rooters crashed through police barriers into the ring, with Cuban flags flying: unanimous for Gavilan...
...trained seals are back at last. The freaks, as usual, are the ugliest persons ever assembled in one basement, especially the Cuban Troubadors, last year's Hula Girls. Afficianados will note with distaste that the modern circus still has too much of the ballet, the burlesque, and the "Regal Cavalcade with Queen Marie Antoinette and her Gay Court of The Royal Horse Show in the Forest of Fontaineblean." But even so nauseous a spectacle as Sixty Alluring Aloha Girls Aloft can be reclaimed by watching Pinito Del Oro in the center, standing no-hands on a swinging trapeze...
...other air crashes last week took the lives of 54. At Key West, Fla., a twin-engined Navy trainer practicing blind flying rammed into a Cuban airline's DC-4. The Navy plane disintegrated; the airliner flew on minus part of a wing for almost a minute, then plunged into the sea. All 43 aboard the two planes were killed...
...mambo's relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...
...Giants' Catcher Rafael Noble (pro nounced No-blay), a hulking (214 Ibs.), barrel-chested backstop, who batted .316 for Oakland, Calif, last season. Cuban-born "Ray" Noble has already played in the Polo Grounds-with the New York Cubans. This year, Manager Leo Durocher expects cat-quick Noble to be the Giants' No. 2 catcher behind Wes Westrum...