Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wife in Havana than about his seat in the Cabinet. Long a widower, he flew to Cuba where he was the guest of Ambassador Guggenheim. At her suburban villa before 30 witnesses he was married to Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, fiftyish, socialite widow of a wealthy Cuban sugar planter. Senator Walsh met his bride in New York two years ago, courted her mostly by mail. One of Mrs. Walsh's two stepdaughters is the wife of the Mayor of Havana. The other is the widow of President Clemente Vasquez Bello of the Cuban Senate (assassinated last autumn...
...books have been published by the Harvard University Press, it was announced yesterday. They are "Thomas Lodge and Other Elizabethans" by C. J. Sisson, Mark Eccles, and Deborah Jones, and "A Bibliography of Cuban Helles-Lettres" by J. D. M. Ford '94, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages, and M. I. Raphael...
Both series-Cuba Cup for star boat skippers who finished first or second in their fleet the year before, Bacardi Cup for all star boat skippers who feel like entering-are decided by points, after three races. Somehow or other, Cuban yachtsmen who have the advantage of sailing on home waters seldom acquire many points. U. S. skippers-Adrian Iselin II, Paul and Cornelius Shields, Harkness Edwards, a jolly Pittsburgher who won the Cuba Cup last year, Edwin, Jahncke, son of Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Jahncke-were well in front last week by the time the boats started...
...wind and calm water for the third Bacardi Cup race. Everyone knew what that meant. Adrian Iselin's Ace, a ghost in light airs, already had taken a third in the first race, a first in the second, for 34 points, to 32 for her nearest rival, the Cuban Mara. Sure enough, heeling gently in the breeze, Ace was away fast and well ahead halfway around the 10-mile triangular course. On the last leg, Jahncke's Tempe III drew close in a puff of wind that Ace missed; the catspaw died with the Iselin boat still...
...fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship of the world...