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...Midnight Tango. In between large slices of history on German policy in Italy and the Balkans during World War II, Hoettl sandwiches in personality tidbits on other Nazi bigwigs. Ribbentrop was called Ribbentropf in South Germany, Tropf meaning lout. According to Hoettl, Ribbentrop, when enraged, would shut himself up in his darkened bedroom. This was called his "midnight tango act," and while it was on, foreign office underlings would secure the Deputy Foreign Minister's signature on papers they knew Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not have signed. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, was passionately fond...
Life of the Party. In Chicago, Bank Robber Samuel Hochstetler confided to FBI agents that in six weeks he had spent $5,000 of the $31,000 loot for dancing lessons, had already mastered the fox trot, the waltz, the rhumba, the mambo, the tango and the samba...
...dresses like a man for a dance number, "Steam Heat." By dint of talent and personality, Miss Haney overcomes the understandable audience disappointment at this deception and turns the routine into the evening's highpoint. She also sings the show's best novelty, "Hernando's Hideaway," a nonsensical little tango which she tears into with grim intensity. Since the lyrics are something like: "At the Golden Finger Bowl or anywhere you go, You'll meet your Uncle Max and everyone you know," you might guess that no one takes the songs, or the show, very seriously...
...been popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary," and let American jazz (Blue Tango, C'est Si Bon) push Russian classical music off the radio...
...Improved Posture? John, meanwhile, had an even more discouraging setback-he threw his back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...