Word: estimable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tourists expected by plane and ship, Schmiedigen was packing in all the Haitian color he could get. Staff artists sculptured likenesses of Haitian beauties, chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...
...Budget. President Estimé, gambling about a fourth of his government's revenues on the chance of winning tourist dollars, seemed satisfied with Schmiedigen's creation. The 1,500 workers, singing as they hammered, spoke of it affectionately as "ti exposition pa'nous" (our little fair). The impresario, a veteran of world's fairs in Paris (1938) and New York (1939), was pleased too. "But," he said, "I've given up hoping that a Haitian worker will ever learn to feel when a line is parallel to another line...
When a United Nations committee criticized the Haitian press last year as one of the worst trained in the hemisphere, President Dumarsais Estimé decided that it was high time for Haiti to start learning its journalistic ABCs. He summoned blonde, blue-eyed Edith Efron, 27, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism and an ex-newshen (the Lawton (Okla.) Constitution, the New York Times), and invited her to start a journalism course at the University of Haiti...
...Efron is the Manhattan-born wife of Fortuné Bogat, a Haitian business agent for U.S. manufacturers (General Motors, RCA, Goodyear, Du Pont). Stepmother of three children, mother of a fourth and mistress of a mountainside mansion overlooking Port-au-Prince, she had a self-deprecating reply to President Estimé's invitation: she had "never taught anybody anything." But, she said, she was willing...
...exclusive Page One interview, black President Estimé renounced the color-conscious "black" politics on which he had campaigned, declared that black Haitians were no more "authentic" than any others. When they got a look at Journal, Estimé's ardently "black" political chieftains threatened to desert his camp...