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...palms and reopened two months ago as a calypso club with a Bahamian trio, two steel drummers. It has since added a converted blues singer named Anne English, now "Lady English," and two Harlem hat-check girls turned dancers. Oldest (eight months) calypso cave is Third Avenue's Jamaican Room, where the Virgin Islands' Carl McCleverty packs them in nightly with calypso in close to its pristine bawdy state...
Lamont Dupont, the original and most lavish hoax, combines heady extravagance with a condescending democracy toward classmates. He "enjoys the sport of kings--falconry"; he has been seen, according to posters, at the Abyssinian royal ball, the Jamaican government congress, and other aristocratic functions. Voting against him is futile since "he owns us all anyway," but freshmen should give him their ballots since "he has condescended...
...President of Haiti from 1950 until he was forced out of office last month, Paul Eugene Magloire was able to spare enough time from his official duties to become a spectacularly successful businessman as well. With Magloire in Jamaican exile (TIME, Dec. 24), Haitians last week were learning for the first time the full extent of his success. Estimates of the take ran from $12 million to figures higher than the country's 1956-57 budget of $28 million. Last week Joseph Nemours Pierre-Louis, Magloire's temporary successor, slapped all Magloire's assets into trusteeship...
While Jamaica strove to cut its imports, a rich new export was discovered almost accidentally. In 1942 a Jamaican rancher wondered why he could not grow grass on his estate near Saint Ann's Bay and sent a soil sample to a U.S. laboratory for analysis. The test proved that the soil was rich in bauxite, the source mineral for aluminum. Two U.S. aluminum companies (Kaiser and Reynolds) and one Canadian (Aluminium Ltd., known locally as Aljam) rushed in, staked out one of the world's biggest bauxite reserves, and are now shipping more than...
...problem in the future. The island's population is growing at the rate of 30,000 yearly, and even in these comparatively good times there are 100,000 people without land holdings or steady jobs. Birth control is ruled out because it goes against all tradition of Afro-Jamaican manhood: native males believe that the only true proof of virility lies in begetting as many children as possible...