Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Hemingway, who tore his scalp open (52 stitches) in an auto crash in Britain last year, fared better when his car skidded on a wet curve outside Havana, piled up in a ditch. Added to the rich Hemingway collection of nicks. lumps, and bruises†: forehead scratches and a sore knee...
Senator Eduardo Chibas, Cuba's pint-size, pistol-packing politico, has fought two gun duels (nobody hurt) and a saber duel (one wound, Mercurochrome size). A fortnight ago he flourished a weapon again. During Havana's meat riots (TiME, June 18), police used tear gas freely. Burning with indignation and clutching a small revolver (see cut), the Senator dashed into the melee. "Shoot me too!" he shouted to the police. They declined...
...newspaper [in Montreal] published a critic and not so nice like every one else. . . . Immagine, this said that I ... am lower of ... Julia Culp!" From Havana he wrote: "... A newspaper say a good thinks and in the same day say bad thinks." His love letters might have been a literal translation of an aria: "My Big Piece of Gold," he wrote from tour, "you make me feel so emotionated that I start to cry again! I reed you and skratce my head because it seams that all my breans . . . is full of you." Of five-month-old Gloria: "Then...
Meanwhile other soldiers combed Havana. They dragged from bed at 6 a.m. a fine collection of former Army officers (including two ex-aides of ex-President Fulgencio Batista), one private, a few civilians. All the officers except one air force lieutenant had been dismissed from the service by President Grau...
Cuba, growing up in the ways of democracy, did not even let the nipped plot throw it into a tailspin. There were no disorders, no swarming of cops and sol diers. Instead, that night a festive crowd marched through the streets of downtown Havana, chanted and cheered outside the President's Palace. They did demand the death of Pedraza...