Word: samba
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...dance is the Brazilian samba* notable alike for its breezy tempo and its lilting bounce. North Americans got their first inklings of samba rhythms three years ago, when seductive Carmen Miranda came up from Rio to shine on Broadway in The Streets of Paris, became really aware of it last spring, when she samba-sang and samba-danced in a cinema, That Night in Rio (TIME, March 24). Since then the samba has been winning more & more fans. By last week...
...Half of Arthur Murray's pupils in 46 cities were taking samba lessons...
...Band Leader Eddie Duchin was playing the samba in theater engagements; his samba disc Brazil was a steady seller. Duchin had spent last summer in Rio, had come back steamed up with the samba's possibilities...
...phonograph companies, noting that record buyers were growing more samba-conscious, had seven albums on the market. A year ago they had none...
...East and West coasts, in Manhattan especially, the samba had broken out of the Latin American nightclub bounds, was being played & danced in many swank dance spots...