Word: siboney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt as to who, exactly, is writing the laws. But there is never any doubt as to who is the chief songwriter in that melodious land. He is Ernesto Lecuona. He wrote the famed, romantic air which outsiders could scarcely be blamed for supposing was the Cuban National Anthem-Siboney.* He wrote Canto Karabali (Jungle Drums), Andalucia (The Breeze and I), La Comparsa, Say Si Si, Maria La O, and a host of other numbers which have made Cuban melody world-famed...
...Cuban anthem is a march by Pedro Figueredo. Siboney is a love song about a hypothetical Indian girl of the Siboneyes, a tribe that inhabited Cuba at the time of the Spanish conquest...
...soaring south across Germany, tagged and addressed to Mr. Axel Andersen in the U. S. A Lufthansa plane landed him in Lisbon. The Clipper was so full of diplomats that even Axel couldn't be squeezed in, so he was put aboard the American Export liner Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel's toys disappear, and tell...
...When the Siboney ran into a storm, most of the passengers got sick and went below. Someone missed Axel and started a feverish hunt for him. He was found sitting in one of the lifeboats, dangling his legs over the side and whooping every time the ship rolled...
...Stars), a squadron commander in the French Air Force, made photographic reconnaissance flights over the German lines. Once he was almost shot down by the Nazis, barely got his plane back safely. After France fell, Saint Exupery was decorated. Last week he landed in Manhattan from the steamer Siboney out of Lisbon. In his suitcase was a brand-new manuscript...