Word: mambo
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...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
Change Partners. In Albuquerque, Ida Gutierrez Trujillo, mother of eight, filed a $15,000 alienation-of-affections suit against Dance Teacher Elsie Ryan Trujillo, charged that Elsie stole the love of Acquiles Trujillo by her demonstrations of the "hula-hula, hoochy-coochy, mambo and samba...
...starts she went on with her customary apparent composure-but out of step ... I found myself reflecting on the many hundreds of hours of dancing lessons I had bought for my daughter and of the vanity of such effort. Here was a girl who could follow the most complicated mambo rhythms but couldn't keep step to Lohengrin...
...Mambo the Most (Woody Herman; Mars). A brawling, uninhibited example of the U.S.'s hottest new dance rhythm, by a band more accustomed to modern jazz (TIME. May 31). On the reverse: Mambo the (Ut)Most...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...