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Last week, with the annual pre-Lenten carnival at hand, Attila the Hun journeyed to Port-of-Spain's Mucurapo Stadium to compete with other island troubadours for the unofficial title of Trinidad's 1950 calypso king. A crowd of 3,000 sweating Trinidadians-black, white and East Indian-sat jampacked under the glaring lights. A steel band, hammering biscuit tins, old oil cans and brake drums, made the place hotter with ear-splitting overtures. Then judges were picked from the audience, and the calypsonians started in. Besides Attila there were old master-singers with such names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mastersinger | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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