Word: lombardo
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...scribe who said of Till the End of Time, "It was the best-selling jazz record of 1945" [TIME, June 23]-was he kidding the public? Anyone who had the nerve to pen such a banality should be forced to listen to Guy Lombardo, Sammy Kaye and Freddie Martin till the end of time...
...green sugar island of Cuba has been the citadel of Communism in the Hemisphere. Communist leaders control the 400,000-strong Cuban Confederation of Labor (C.T.C.). The C.T.C., in turn, is the cornerstone of Communist-line Vicente Lombardo Toledano's Latin American Federation of Labor (C.T.A.L.). Last week, in that very citadel, Don Vicente got an unexpected buffeting...
Reports that Auténtico (Cuban Revolutionary Party) leaders were trying to move in on the C.T.C. at its annual convention had sped Lombardo from his Mexico City home to Havana. He had hardly settled into his $24-a-day room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their...
...nticos charged that Lombardo Toledano was a "foreigner sticking his nose in internal affairs." In Congress, Auténtico deputies asked for the Mexican's ouster from the country. After Cuba's Minister of the Interior canceled the convention in the interests of public safety, Lombardo Toledano quietly flew away...
...Lombardo has always walked the tightrope between the Communist Party line and Mexican nationalism, and verbally has always managed to reconcile the two positions. In general, however, he has been closer to the Moscow line, and quicker to take it up, than the Mexican Communist Party itself, which as a result has had to go through repeated painful purges...