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...bright-eyed little Negro girl from Keyport, NJ. rolled into Manhattan with a high-school diploma in her hand, and an idea in her head that she would become a "high dramatic soprano." But the big time was hard to break into: Juanita Hall was 35 before she padded onto a Broadway stage as Bloody Mary, the betel-chewing Tonkinese mama in South Pacific (TIME, April 18) and stole a considerable piece of that smash hit from Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza...
...given name sounds vaguely like some foreigner's; to many Latin Americans, the Juan sounds vaguely like some countryman's. Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...
Because of the song, Adelita has come to symbolize all the sturdy women of the revolution-such scowling Amazons as Colonel Juanita, who commanded a regiment of Zapata's best cavalry; the handsome, .45-toting blondes of the Café Viena in Guadalajara, who could pick out a tune by firing at piano keys; the thousands of soldaderas who followed their men into battle, gave birth in boxcars, somehow managed also to produce three meals...
...JUANITA STAFF TURLEY...
...Miss Juanita Olson and Frank DeMattei, representing the U. of C. at Berkeley, won a unanimous decision by their statement of the affirmative on the topic "Resolved: That federal control of labor unions should be increased." Speaking for Harvard and the negative were Debate Council member Roy G. Clouse '50 and Ellis Kaplan...