Word: siboney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first tourist to the balmy island of Cuba, went ashore Oct. 28, 1492, sword in one hand, cross in the other, saying: "The most beautiful land human eyes have ever beheld." The gentle Siboney Indians left their hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based...
Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation's alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here; Siboney); in White Plains...
...worried strongman last week. While he was awarding regatta prizes at Varadero Beach, a band of less than 200 uniformed men attacked the army barracks in Santiago de Cuba. Local troops drove off the rebels, pursued them into the hills and captured a cache of weapons and uniforms near Siboney. As the mop-up continued, casualties mounted to 82 dead and 36 wounded; it was Latin America's bloodiest revolt since last year's uprising in Bolivia (TIME. April...
...Patrick's High School (his closest friend was Al Capone's son Albert), and got a part-time job cleaning canary cages for a firm which sold birds to local drugstores. He soon found steadier work as a guitarist in a four-piece band incongruously called the Siboney Sextette. The critics agreed on Desi's meager musical gifts. "He was always off-beat," says Theater Owner Carlos Montalban. "But he's an awfully nice guy-a clean-cut Latin...