Word: havana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when they travesty them, they are delightful. The Piccoli take-off of a red-hot Negro jazz band going into spasms and contortions of rhythm is brilliant burlesque. So is their exaggeratedly alcoholic and rumba-ridden picture of a Havana nightspot. And the temperamental concert pianist, frenziedly pounding away at the Second Hungarian Rhapsody, affectedly fiddling with his coat tails, orchidaceously turning the pages of his music, is not only a miracle of string-pulling, but a hilarious parody of 1,001 humbugs who have infested the concert halls of the world...
...afternoon last week, at latitude 22:10 North, longitude 51:28 West-1,900 miles east of Havana, Cuba, on the regular trade route from Barbados to England-the wireless operator of the British tanker El Ciervo began tapping out an alarm...
...pack, he made valuable meteorological, geological, magnetic, tidal, glacial and botanical surveys. At one time he was doctor, nurse and cook to a shipful of bedridden men. He finally got his party, invalids and all, to safety with loss of only one man. Kane died in Havana just after his 37th birthday...
...Radiorators and columnists did not hesitate to announce as fact (each had it on unimpeachable authority) a dozen conflicting guesses. Most of them focused on the lean and elegant figure of Sumner Welles. A career diplomat, 47, educated at Groton, Harvard, and the embassies at Tokyo, Buenos Aires and Havana, Sumner Welles is a casting director's dream of a diplomat, except for his thinning hair. His diplomatic experience has ranged from mediating in the Dominican Republic at 30 to seeing him self hanged in effigy in Cuba in 1933 and hearing mobs shout "Down with Welles...
...Esteban Valderrama, 47, director of a Cuban art school, leading portrait painter of Havana, this winter was commissioned by the Cuban Senate to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. A great admirer of President Roosevelt is thin, excitable Dr. Valderrama. He hopes that when his portrait is hung in the Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale...