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Hosts of North Americans love Latin American music. Last week they had a chance to learn how Latin Americans themselves estimate the rumba and conga artists now performing in the U.S. Manhattan's big Spanish-language daily La Prensa gave a party for the winners of its recent musical popularity poll. Few of the leaders were favorites of the U.S. public, many were unknown to that public...
Since the number of ballots a voter could cast in La Prensa's poll was limited only by the number of copies of La Prensa he could get his hands on, the poll had a somewhat dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...Scores. La Prensa's poll gave long-nosed Xavier Cugat. captain of the U.S. rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known...
...Mexican group are Bernardo Ponce and Gonzalo Baez Camargo, both of Excelsior; Jose Perez Moreno of Universal; Cesar Ortiz Tinoco, of El Popular; Rafael Herrerlas, of Novedades; Francisco M. Armand, of La Prensa; and Xavier Sanchez Gavito, of El Nacional...
...Prensa's Co-Director Tito Gainza Paz asserts that 1) his paper has no agreement with anyone "either to print news or to refrain from printing news"; 2) despite severe newsprint shortage, it still prints 15 to 24 columns of foreign news. As of the present, however, Editor James's claim for the Times is doubtless correct. Certainly the Times has one of the world's outstanding coverages of foreign news...