Word: havana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANDREW J. LASKA Havana, Cuba...
...Pure Havana. In Portland, Ore., Thomas Crawford told police that two strangers had hypnotized him by blowing cigar smoke into his face, then got him to draw $1,100 from his bank account and give them the money...
...time or money to travel so high, wide and handsomely as 29-year-old Tennis Star Victor Seixas (No. 2 m U.S. rankings), who is semi-retired but not rich. In the past twelve months, Tourist Seixas has visited (in the order of his major appearances) Miami, Palm Beach, Havana, Bermuda, London, Wimbledon, Montreal, Southampton Newport, Boston, Forest Hills, Los Angeles Mexico City, Honolulu, Auckland and Melbourne. A trip to South America in 1948, to South Africa in 1950 and wartime duty in Japan (as a test pilot for the Air Service Command) round Vic out as a six-continent...
...world's biggest sugar operator is a little known Havana trader named Julio Lobo. A short, imperious man of 54, Lobo has more to do than anybody else with determining the world price of sugar. He handles about half the entire Cuban crop, at least a fourth of the Puerto Rican and Philippine crops, owns or controls up to 30 Cuban sugar mills, and dominates the market everywhere. "I am the market," he says. "I buy and sell sugar any time, day or night." Last week, as Cuba's 5,000,000-ton sugar harvest rolled toward...
Born in Caracas, whence his banker-father fled to Havana after a turn-of-the-century revolution, Lobo was schooled in sugar-mill engineering at Louisiana State University. He learned sugar marketing in the hard times following World War I, when he was called home to put his father's factoring firm of Lobo y Cia back on its feet and soon earned a reputation as a top trader...