Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Private World. Even though held in by injury and age, Hemingway's life-on a small plantation ten miles outside Havana, called Finca Vigia, or Lookout Farm-is still the special Hemingway blend of thought and action, artistry and nonconformity. The Hemingway of 1954 still has a bit of himself for the many sides of his life-and plenty left over to populate that private Hemingway world where the Hemingway heroes and heroines live their lives of pride and trouble, enduring with courage as long as they can, often destroyed but never defeated...
...stepped off a plane at San Juan airport, Puerto Rico and snapped a sharp yes when immigration officials asked the routine "have-you-ever-been-a-Communist?" question. Greene, who was en route to London from a vacation in Haiti, was politely detained overnight, next morning took off for Havana for a few days' nightclubbing and the chance to bemuse reporters with his story. The heart of the matter, explained famed Roman Catholic Convert Greene: 31 years ago, at 19, he and a friend decided, for a joke, to take control of the "Oxford branch" of the party. They...
Since the government opened the door to foreign exploration capital this summer, U.S. oilmen have been filling Havana with ten-gallon hats and billion-barrel talk. Last week a band of ten Latin American and U.S. businessmen flew into Havana to promote the development of the country's oil resources. Among the officers of the newly chartered Cuban-Colombian Petroleum Co.: Board Chairman Joseph W. Frazer. once of Kaiser-Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent...
Still without a divorce from Crooner Frank Sinatra, Cinemactress Ava Gardner left Nevada, where she had waited out her six-week legal residency stint, and rushed to Havana's Hotel Nacional, where she and Frankie had honeymooned so long ago. This time she registered as Miss Anne Clarke and maid, later went fishing with her old friend, Author Ernest Hemingway, hooked a twelve-pounder, while Papa caught nothing...
...Shamrock brings busy Connie Hilton's string to 19 hotels with 18,344 rooms in the U.S. and abroad. He has five more hotels abuilding (Havana, Beverly Hills, Mexico City, Acapulco, Istanbul), and three others in the planning stage (Rome, Cairo, London). But Connie Hilton is not ready to settle back just yet. Though Hilton is not talking, rumors are buzzing that he is in a hot bidding battle with Real-Estate Operator William Zeckendorf (see below) for control of the $67 million Statler chain of eight big U.S. hotels. Zeckendorf has already bid $50 a share for Statler...