Word: riobamba
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...over America the last few months. Not since the days of Rudolph Valentino has American womanhood made such unabashed public love to an entertainer. It started with Frank Sinatra's first solo appearance at the Paramount theater last December, flowered when he moved on to Manhattan's Riobamba club. The press noted his impact on every woman present, recorded the phenomenon loudly and long...
...Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border into Colombia. On March 5 he strode into Quito...
...like Kelly's Stable) on the syncopated skids. People want soft tunes they can sway to and old favorites they can hum. Most ubiquitous new song: Cole Porter's torchy-chornya You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (best sung by the Riobamba's fresh-voiced Frank Sinatra...
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