Word: xavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tune of the Afro-Cuban habanera, the world has imported a remarkably large part of its popular music from Cuba. But only in recent years has this import business mushroomed into a sizable industry. Captain of that industry today is a black-haired, rather chinless band leader, Xavier Cugat (rhymes with glue pot), who gets an annual gross of $500,000 purveying the Cuban rumba and other Latin-American rhythms to the U.S. public. Last week Importer Cugat was at the peak of his career...
...Governor General of French West Africa (including the port of Dakar). The three men who joined him were Kansas-bred Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, Commander of Allied Forces in North Africa, Irish-born Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, Commander of Allied Naval Forces under Eisenhower, and Admiral Jean Louis Xavier Francois Darlan, newly self-proclaimed "Chief of State in French Africa...
...late George Gershwin was represented by his self-portrait posed before his easel in top hat, white tie and tails. Nathan Milstein, top-rank violinist, revealed himself as a minor master in watercolor. Rumbologist Xavier Cugat sketched himself standing before invisible bongo drums...
...Mexican group are Bernardo Ponce and Gonzalo Baez Camargo, both of Excelsior; Jose Perez Moreno of Universal; Cesar Ortiz Tinoco, of El Popular; Rafael Herrerlas, of Novedades; Francisco M. Armand, of La Prensa; and Xavier Sanchez Gavito, of El Nacional...
...before her younger sisters. Fred Astaire, a momentarily unemployed Yankee hoofer, gets mixed up in it and, against Father's wishes, walks off with both a job and Rita. These complications are set to smooth music by Jerome Kern, which is served up, with whipped cream, by Xavier Cugat. Hoofer Astaire sings two tunes aptly enough to raise one of Bing Crosby's sleepy eyebrows, conducts Miss Hayworth through a lush nocturnal duet...