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No one cheered louder at Fidel Castro's victory last January than the Chicago Tribune's longtime Latin America correspondent Jules Dubois. Gushed Dubois in a flattering biography of the hero: "A deep reverence for civilian, representative, constitutional government." The dazzled dictator decorated the newsman with a medal...
The Cubans did not bar Dubois from the country. They just threatened to cut off his food. At the suggestion of a Havana radio commentator, the National Federation of Gastronomic Workers, whose membership includes cooks, waiters, barkeeps and hotel staffs, voted to deny Dubois their services "because of his attitude...
Next time I go to Cuba, I'll bring my own sandwiches." Flying down to Havana at week's end, presumably without sandwiches, intrepid Correspondent Dubois ran headfirst into the embargo. At the Habana Hilton, bellhops refused to carry his bags and the waiters refused to serve him...
Mad Cossack. Then there was Aunt Kate, who seemed to some merely an aging spinster, slightly touched in the head. But on Moss Hart's stage she emerges as a kind of Bronx Blanche DuBois, a woman defying her mean surroundings by living in a world of her own...
Blanche DuBois has been looking all of her life for a gentleman, in the most literal sense. Her first gentleman was a homosexual youth who needed her help, but because of her own needs she was unable to help him. She failed him, and in the end destroyed him. She...