Word: rumba
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...Blue Note (formerly Lipp's Lower Level), the big names were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...
Youth Movement. In Jamaica, N.Y., Mary Franzen and Katherine Kirschoch, twin sisters, turned up at a dance studio, speedily caught on to the intricate steps of the rumba in their half-hour lesson, their first in 92 years...
There was something in the air. At the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan was moved to dance in public for the first time in 17 years, happily jounced his globular person (250 Ibs.) through a rumba with Ballerina Yvonna Chauvire (no Ibs.). In Chicago, retired Soapmaker Walter R. Kirk (Jap Rose, Kirk's Flakes) was sued for a separation by Wife Louisa, who said he was 72, charged him with adultery in 22 instances. (Not so, said Kirk-besides...
Docker's Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite...
Chile's Benjamin Alberto Cohen, flyweight diplomat, welterweight newsman, and heavyweight samba & rumba expert, heads the Department of Public Information, which distributes painfully impartial U.N. news to the world. Arkady Alexandrovich Sobolev, a Soviet expert on international law and one of Russia's less prickly emissaries, heads the Department of Security Council Affairs. The others: Economics-David Kemp Owen, mountain-climbing, poetry-loving Welshman and Foreign Office career man; Administrative & Financial Services-Kentucky's thin-shelled John B. Hutson, former director of the tobacco, sugar, rice & peanuts division of AAA; Social Affairs-sharp-eyed Henri Laugier, former...