Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both hero and heroine. But later, true to Hollywood tradition, this all turns out to be a dream, and everything must be threshed out again from the beginning...
...split in CAB's thinking was plain to see last week when CAB approved, by a 4-to-1 vote, a 90% boost in Chicago and Southern's mail pay on its New Orleans-Havana route. The lone dissenter was CAB's newest member and chairman, James McCauley Landis. Landis, who usually gets what he wants, was bent on taking a hard, realistic look at the rates and routes awarded by CAB in the past. He did not think that subsidies should be boosted to make up for CAB's mistakes in granting routes...
...horse-track touts, drug peddlers and plain tourists who winter in Cuba were reading the Broadway columns with closer interest. Every now & then they found a nice little item about "Lucky" Luciano, and in Havana it was pretty common knowledge that Lucky was wintering in Cuba...
...newspaperman who was incredulous about all this was Scripps-Howard's Robert C. Ruark. Last week Ruark was in Havana, and when he saw the swarthy face of Luciano he headed for the wire office with anger in his heart...
...that was what happened when trim, 40-year-old Ellen Irene Diggs, Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at the University of Havana, registered at Rio's new, 2O-story Hotel Serrador. Dr. Diggs went off without fuss to another hotel. But when word of the Hotel Serrador's decision got around, she became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said...