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Unrehearsed as usual, M. C. Paco Malgesto sauntered into his Mexico City TV studio only 30 minutes before show time, glanced vaguely over the program and took to the air. Up wriggled his guest, an Uruguayan beauty queen named Eda Lorna. She was muffled in a red velvet robe from chin to trim ankle. "It says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Genial Mexican | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...Music Department Festival in honor of the opening of the new Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library will begin tonight at 8:30 p.m. with a concert in Memorial Church by the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music Staff Begins Library Festivities | 12/7/1956 | See Source »

Double Profits. Any serious U.S. businessman who wants to start a factory or a branch plant in Puerto Rico gets kingly treatment from Bootstrap. Under Administrator Teodoro ("Ted") Moscoso, a briefcase-toting man in horn-rimmed spectacles who flouts Latin tradition by working 70 hours a week, EDA can offer mouth-watering inducements. It will provide the businessman with labor from its big files of workers, trained in everything from pastry-baking to power-sewing by one of the world's largest vocational schools. It will build a plant and rent it to him. Moving to Puerto Rico will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Island Workshop | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

Original funds for the library of $200,000 were offered two years ago by the trustees of the Eda K. Loeb Estate of New York. The present Music Building was made possible by a gift from Mrs. Loeb's brother-in-law, James Loeb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $450,000 Music Library To Rise by Fall of 1956 | 6/1/1955 | See Source »

...approved by the Fine Arts Commission. Presidential families, by general agreement, abide by its decision. But if a President's wife insists on rearranging the furniture, she may do so despite any protests by the commission, Congress or the public. * Two of Mamie's sisters, Eleanor and Eda May, died while in their teens; the third, Mrs. Frances ("Mike") Moore, is the wife of an air transport executive in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: The President's Lady | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

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