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...last week 2,000 insurgent Roxas followers crowded into Manila's Santa Ana Cabaret* drink beer, spout oratory in Tagalog, English and Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's, another nightclub, and put Osmeña's name on the ballot. The Philippines were devastated and flat broke. They would stay that way until the dilatory U.S. Congress passed legislation granting $450,000,000 for postwar rehabilitation. But now the future at least promised excitement. The hottest political campaign...
...three, Diego Rivera, now 58, contributed a modest, cleverly patterned water color entitled Indian Mother and Children. Last year he climbed down from his mural scaffoldings to paint sexy nudes for Mexico City's swank nightclub, Giro's. Now he is doing a vast historical mural for Mexico's National Palace. Siqueiros, in the most traditionally political painting displayed, showed a mountainous Indian girl clasping a field of oil wells to her bosom. Patriotically entitled Sunrise of Mexico, it has already been snapped up by International Business Machines Corp...
...Giro's, a plushy nightspot in Mexico City, the band beat out a rumba rhythm. Americanos were on their feet almost before the Mexicans. Rotund Leon Henderson and his smartly tailored brunette wife, vacationing in Mexico, listened to a few frenzied beats, then let themselves...
Everett Hoagland, the young American who leads the band at Giro's, saw he dance at a Veracruz fiesta. He orchestrated the simple folk melody and noted down its dance steps. Back at Giro's he began to alternate it with his regular fare of rumbas, sambas and congas. Within six weeks Mexico City's socialites, free-spending European expatriates and Amerlean travelers were calling for nothing but La Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance...
...ovation. Leaving the theater, the generals were confronted by a shouting mob. Said General Ike: "If all these people want to see me, I'm going to get out on the running board and let them."* He did (see cut) while Scotland Yard stood agape. After supper at Giro's (where General Ike had the first dance with his pretty WAG secretary, Lieut. Kay Summersby), the party moved back to Bradley's suite at the Dorchester. It broke...