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...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Died. Harry Baur, 62, famed French character actor; in Paris. Fisherman, soap salesman, fruit vendor, teacher, he took a face as mobile as a surrealist potato on to the stage in the late 1800s, was a bright star in the theater for more than 30 years, the French cinema's Laughton-Jannings for the past twelve...
...among male singers was Miguelito Valdes (real name Eugenio Lazaro Miguel Izquierdo Valdes y Hernandez), whose vigorous song-shouting has been featured with both Cugat and Machito. With the latter's band, big, bull-like Valdes recently recorded an album of his guarachas (risque ballads) and pregons (street-vendor songs) for Decca. He sings in a variety of moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront...
Died. Steve Vasilakos, 58, the nation's most publicized peanut vendor (outside the White House for 37 years); of a heart ailment; in Washington...
...back. Lear's forces have lost many officers to new units in formation (U.S. division increase in one year: 27 to 72). But leadership, said McNair, is excellent among the higher officers. As for discipline: "Last year, the maneuvers stopped when men gathered around a pop vendor. They filled themselves full of pop, then they couldn't march or fight. I haven't seen any of that this year...