Word: lima
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...long ago Tomás Alejandro Loayza, our correspondent in Peru, sat down and wrote us about his job. Now 49, Loayza was a veteran correspondent before he returned to Lima twelve years ago. He had spent about 15 years on assignments in Japan, the U.S., France, England and Spain covering many major news stories. From Madrid in 1931, he scored a four-hour news beat when King Alfonso fled the country without abdicating, later reported battles of the Spanish Civil War. During the first three years of World War II, he worked for Nelson Rockefeller's committee...
...what happens when a TIME reporter gets sent on a foreign assignment, say Lima or Rome or Tokyo? He must work by the same standards that we were talking about, but the first thing he finds is that his subject matter, people, is different; they talk and act differently, not like the people he has known in other countries. He will find that their words do not always mean what they say and that often even things are not what they seem. So to his many functions he must add another. American or native, he must be an interpreter...
Punches & Bows. Take Lima, and me, if you please. I came back to Peru twelve years ago after 26 years abroad (I was a kid when I started traveling with my father, who was a Peruvian diplomat and author). First thing that impressed me here was that my countrymen were an emotional lot. Next I noticed that they were given to using high-sounding polysyllables and superlatives. Like Dr. Samuel Johnson, if a limeño "were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales." In fact, Latins in general treat four-syllable words with the careless ease...
...brothers did well elsewhere. Gordon was chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank at his death in 1948. George, now 58, runs the family plant and is chairman of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...
...mambo's relentless rhythm had already caused at least one homicide (in Mexico), had driven its practitioners to such wild exuberance in Peru that Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara of Lima denied absolution to anyone who danced it. In its fast, Afro-Cuban syncopation, the percussion instruments thump down on the offbeat while the brasses go up in high blaring dissonance. Its tunes have such titles as Mambo No. 5, El Ruletero (the taxi driver) and Pachito 'Eche, whose words in typical rhythm, go: "Who is it, who is it? I will...