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...latest songstress to climb to Manhattan's nightclub big time is a comely, 22-year-old blonde named Marti Stevens. Last week, in the crowded and fashionable Maisonette of the Hotel St. Regis, she was pouring out some of the best mood-spinning that has hit the nightclub belt this winter. Her songs ranged from such wistful numbers as Young-at-Heart and It's Only a Paper Moon to barrelhouse renditions of The Birth of the Bines and Sing, You Sinners. In voice and style. Songstress Stevens managed to remind listeners of a younger Judy Garland...
...hundredth anniversary of the birth of José Martí, the island's liberator. A ballet, headed by Cuba-born Alicia Alonso, performed nightly in an outdoor theater; 7,000 torch-bearing paraders marched at midnight; schoolchildren dropped a thousand white flowers at the base of the Marti monument. For a week, Cubans laid aside strong talk about their strong man, General Fulgencio Batista, and gave themselves over to honoring one of Latin America's greatest, though least known, historical figures...
...first of the Spanish bullets smashed through his breast and killed him. He was 42. His death helped turn the uncertain, barefoot rebels into a band of machete-swinging warriors; he became a hero whose fiery slogans were remembered. Three years later, thanks to powerful intervention by the U.S., Marti's goal of independence was in sight...
Although most of the Spanish-language LIFE will consist of articles and pictures from the domestic edition of LIFE, each issue will also have pictures, articles and selections prepared especially for the Spanish-language edition. For example. No. 1 has an eleven-page illustrated article on Cuban Patriot Jose Marti, together with some of his original writings. As a regular feature, the Spanish-language LIFE also has a "Letter from North America." In its Letters-to-the-Editor section, Colombia Publisher Maurice Obregón, owner of Semana, a weekly newsmagazine, wrote:"We respect the competition of your admirable magazine...
Everybody's a Head. Being a "head," Marti feels, is being part of a whole new culture. "Everybody's a head now. One out of every five persons you meet on the street are heads. But all those things they say about them aren't true. There are lots of blowing cats [musicians] who have been smoking for years. Lots of doctors. People aren't the sharpest. They don't catch on. Not even on junk. You know you don't have to stand in the middle of the living room...