Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negro baseball in general. Yet colored ball could have been good copy at any time since 1885, when the first professional Negro nine was made up of waiters from Long Island's tony Argyle Hotel. To be acceptable as opponents for local semi-pros, they posed as Cubans, babbled gibberish on the field, called themselves the Cuban Giants...
...second home town, play in Washington's Griffith Stadium every available Sunday, in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field every available Saturday. In Washington they often draw larger crowds than Clark Griffith's Senators. Few weeks ago a capacity crowd of 32,000 saw the Grays play the Cuban Stars...
...Baseman Eddie Collins, who had been hired by Boss Yawkey to oversee his team of expensive prima donnas. Back with the Senators, after one season at Boston, Harris had to cope with aging Owner Clark Griffith, the Old Fox, who expected him still to be the Boy Wonder with Cuban semi-pros and Class-D bushers...
...Scores. La Prensa's poll gave long-nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known...
There are many other scenes from Mencken's long journalistic career, including a Cuban revolutionary bit which is a thumbnail classic on Latin American politics. Mencken has heard all the great U.S. exhorters, from William Jennings Bryan on, and it is his considered opinion that none was "worthy of being put in the same species, or even in the same genus, as Gerald L. K. Smith ... a boob-bumper worth going miles to see and hear." Mencken heard Smith speak on the same platform with Father Coughlin and win hands down, despite his opponent's "habit of enforcing...