Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia's Curtis Institute is grooming Cuban Margot Ros, 12, soft-eyed pianist-prodigy who played in Havana concerts at three. Maestro Leopold Stokowski, introducing her at a Philadelphia children's concert two years ago, called her "one of the greatest products of Cuba." She loves Shirley Temple, ''would dearly love to skate in the snow...
...have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time on the part of three young Cuban revolutionaries, who want him to save their skins by transporting them...
...shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban coast...
...their experiences did not end on the Cuban beach. Down to the water's edge came Cuban rural policemen, hastily summoned by the fishermen. One look at the small arsenal in the boat, rifles, pistols, gas bombs, rounds of ammunition, and the suspicious local police rushed the refugees off to jail, suspected them of being a revolutionary expedition to Cuba's shores. This week Cuban authorities released them, arranged to ship them back to Great Inagua...
Seeking Divorce. The Countess of Covadonga, onetime Cuban belle Marta Rocafort; from the Count of Covadonga, onetime heir to the throne of Spain, whom she married in July (TIME, July 12); in Havana, Cuba. Cause: "incompatibility of characters...