Word: santana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cameras rolled and Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida, playing in Solomon and Sheba on location in Madrid, recoiled prettily from the evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...
...Humphrey Bogart, lived until he died of cancer in January. "I don't feel sorry for myself," she said, "but there are too many associations. I can't live here any more." Also soon to be up for sale: Bogie's 55-ft. yawl, the Santana...
...point that thing at me," snapped Blankenship, bristling. The pistol was snatched by another member of the gang, Frank Santana, 17, a dark, undersized youth who yelled at his buddies: "Don't chicken...
...Santana fired one shot. Young Blankenship fell dying, a bullet through his heart. The Navajos fled, some riding away on their bicycles. Santana hid the pistol at his home and went to bed; when his mother returned to their shabby apartment, he was hungry. "Give me some coffee and something to eat," he said. At 3 a.m. the police, after questioning many youths, came to arrest him, and he confessed readily...
...Clean Dirt. Frank Santana, his two younger brothers and his widowed mother came from Puerto Rico; they lived on $158 monthly relief. Often truant from school, he was never truculent, simply baffled. His I.Q. score: a very low 69. He stayed four terms in the same class, but his teachers never considered him a disciplinary problem. A neighbor said that he was considerate: "The woman next door has a baby, and Frank would take the carriage in for her without being asked." He went three nights a week to a nearby Police Athletic League center, designed to keep boys...