Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Falangist Leader Jenaro Riestra went to Havana from Spain last week with a consul generalship for himself, a present for Cuban President Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Neither made...
With its twin motors ticking over rhythmically, a big Heinkel transport moved into position on Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airfield one day last week, began loading up for its regular Sāo Paulo run. Up the steps walked the passengers: Cuban Minister to Brazil Alfonso Hernández Catá, Rockefeller Foundation's yellow-fever researcher Dr. Evandro Chagas, Norwegian Consul Alexander Stabell Grieg, Sebastiāo Leme Salles, nephew of Rio's Cardinal Archbishop, eleven lesser wigs. Heading into the wind, the VASP airliner roared across the field, lifted easily into a climbing...
...choicer material in the well-worn I Didn't Know What Time It Was and the new You're Nearer, also gets the affections of Richard Carlson, whose crew haircut makes him the first genuine-looking Princeton undergraduate in cinema history. Ann Miller, Hal LeRoy and a Cuban, Desi Arnaz, a terpsichorean Rudolph Valentino who was in the stage show, make you wish there were more time for dancing; Eddie Bracken that there were more for comedy...
...first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed Easton's gymnasium thought the bus-toted Barber was swell, spent ten minutes bellowing and pounding for curtain calls. When it was over, huge Driver Tim Ward loaded his flats...
...already Opposition leaders, such as onetime President Ramón Grau San Martin, holding that Batista's occasional liberal gestures have always been for dictatorial ends, suggested in Cuban radio broadcasts that their only hope lay in another, anti-Batista revolution. As far as Washington was concerned, Cuba already had the right President. Contemplated was a possible loan to Cuba by the U. S. Export-Import Bank of $50,000,000 for the development of agriculture, mining, secondary roads, public works, tourism, hospitals, schools, with $10,000,000 earmarked for "balancing the budget...