Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benny Goodman quit when Pollack bawled them out one night for coming to work in dirty shoes. After his wife left him in 1932 Jimmy went off to the Caribbean on a cattle boat, lay on the beach for a year, playing in tinny Latin bands from Havana to Panama. In the swing boom of the mid-'30s, he had a brief burst of glory with a band that included such jazz names as George Wettling, Eddie Condon, Pee Wee Russell, Georg Brunis and Mel Powell...
Reports that Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) leaders were trying to move in on the C.T.C. at its annual convention had sped Lombardo from his Mexico City home to Havana. He had hardly settled into his $24-a-day room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their...
...this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...
...baseball's never-never land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
Shorts Story. In Havana, Cuba, Harvey Locke planed in from Florida wearing shorts, argued unsuccessfully with Immigration authorities who refused to let him into the country until he changed into long pants, huffily flew back to Florida on the next plane...