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...cause of the uproar was a seismic new dance called La Pachanga-Caribbean slang for "wild party." Historians are able to date the dance with some exactness. In December 1959, a young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor...
Forbes again demonstrated his excellent taste with two American folk songs arranged by John Jacob Niles and J. Colman and an Irish ballad done by the late Archibald Davidson. Emily Romney sang The Gambler's Wife with a freedom that never became hackneyed...
...Harvard winners of the Woodrow on Fellowships included Stephen L. Kirby A. Baker, John S. Belmont, on S.P. Bennett, Alan V. Berger, e A. Burnham, Denis P. Coughlin, d C. Davidson, Preston O. de Long, pe de Montebello, Guido F. Di Meo, mith Freeman...
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...many a worried U.S. retailer, it was the plight before Christmas. "Of course we're not ahead of last year's sales now," Bloomingdale Board Chairman J. Edward Davidson summed it up last week. "But with two extra shopping days this Christmas, we still have a chance to top 1959." For the year so far, store sales are barely even with 1959's record totals. The big test is in the sales that are made in the gift-buying stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas-usually 16% of the year's total. For most retailers, Christmas sales...