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Before the performance begins, Señor Don Pepe Hernandez, a third-rate impresario who bills himself as "el compere extraordinario" has advertised in the local press of Trujillo, Honduras, that he has assembled a nightclub act of internationally famous cabaret stars. They include Señor Blind Joe Jackson (el blues cantante de Jackson, Mississippi), Giuseppe y Giovanni (el duo dinamico de Milano, Italia), and Las Dos La-La-Las (dos chiquitas frivolantes de Barcelona, Espa...
...Italian immigrant to Argentina, sometime bus mechanic, Fangio was 28 before he attracted international attention by finishing fifth in the Gran Premio Extraordinario Argentino. Not until he was 38 did a manufacturer (Alfa Romeo) sign him up to race full time. In his second year under contract (1951), the phlegmatic Fangio won the world driving championship. He won it again four times in the next six years, driving for Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Maserati and Mercedes-Benz. Twice he narrowly escaped death. In 1948 his car went off the road in the Grand Prix of South America, killing his partner...
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