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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, with Castro's ideas of liberty, democracy and social justice in serious question, with Cuba's constitution ignored at Castro's fancy, with elections not even in prospect, Herb Matthews was back in Cuba. He had been disturbed by growing U.S. criticism of the Castro regime. "The Cuba story was getting all confused in New York," he told a fellow reporter. "I thought I'd come down...
Inside Song. In clearly choosing sides in Cuba's conflict. Herb Matthews, 59, was following a well-established pattern in his long, award-studded career. In 1929 he went to the Far East, where tension was already rising, came away feeling more sympathy toward the Japanese than the Chinese ("What I responded to, above all, was the charm and hospitality of the Japanese"). When Mussolini invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Matthews enthusiastically supported the Italians, later wrote: "If you start from the premise that a lot of rascals are having a fight, it is not unnatural to want...
Tinny Ring. Still recalling his Spanish experience, Matthews wrote: "I admit being highly susceptible to personal contacts, and this is a weakness in a newspaperman." That may be one of Herb Matthews' problems in covering Cuba, where he is viewed more as a revolutionary institution than a working newsman. Explained another Cuba correspondent last week: "Whether he likes it or not, Matthews is regarded as being a sort of father confessor of Fidel Castro's revolution." Returning to Cuba this month, he was wined and dined by top Cuban government officials, spent some ten hours in close conversation...
...deal on those Eyetalian sports cars." Appearing at San Francisco's hungry i last week (at $2,500 a week), Bruce seemed to amuse most of the customers, outraged many, and quickly got into a feud with the San Francisco Chronicle's celebrated columnist Herb Caen, who called Bruce a bore. Lenny retaliated by announcing elaborately during his act that Herb Caen "is not a transvestite, not a Commie, does not tint his hair...
Square Dances: Tuesdays, July 7-August 4, in the Harvard Union. Herb Gaudreau, caller...