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...half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough for all the cardinals "unless they ruthlessly cut down their wardrobe." First to place his order was Palermo's Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, who knocked at the tailor's door the very morning he heard the happy news. Said Gammarelli last week: "I would want to satisfy them all but they will have to be patient and make...
...Smitest Thou Me? The Bolivian regime of Provisional President Gualberto Villarroel last week discovered and scotched a plot to overthrow it. Warned in the nick of time, the Government caught one conspirator actually handing out cash to soldiers. Bigger fish captured were ex-Minister of War Ernesto Hertzog, two generals, and Lawyer Nestor Galindo, charged with distributing a 20,000,000 peso ($450,000) corruption fund. Biggest fish: German-born Argentine-naturalized Tin Magnate Mauricio Hochschild, jailed as principal...
...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Last week, armed with the title of Cultural Attaché of the Cuban Embassy, solid, swarthy Ernesto Lecuona was rushing around Manhattan doing a number of things no diplomat had ever done before. He had just signed one of the biggest song-publishing contracts ever negotiated on Broadway. He had agreed to collaborate with U.S. Songwriter Vincent Youmans (Tea for Two) on 15 numbers for a new musical show. He was combing Hollywood agents out of his vaselined hair. He had gathered together an orchestra of some 60 pieces and turned Carnegie Hall into a cave of Caribbean melody...
Bachelor of Music. Ernesto Lecuona is a quiet citizen who likes to wear fine clothes-in which, however, he looks like Comedian Zero Mostel. He says he dislikes nightclubs, but he makes the Manhattan rounds with systematic regularity. He also visits churches and museums. The seldom-visited place he calls home is a finca (farm) about 40 minutes outside Havana where he has a nine-room house surrounded with tropical fruit trees, ten dogs and a large assortment of hogs, cattle and horses...