Word: cubans
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...George told the committee, he was a collector for a group of deputies and received $800 weekly to be split up. He said that $300 of the money came from the S & G Syndicate, $300 from the swank Sunny Isles Casino and $200 from the operation of bolita, the Cuban numbers game. Occasional raids were made on these establishments, but only after the management had been tipped off first. In the period, George estimated he took in about $50,000 and kept...
Lolling in his Cuban farmhouse, dressed only in shorts and a highball, Ernest Hemingway posed as a hairy-chested prop for a fashion picture in Vogue. Referring to him as "a famous presence in Cuba," the caption was mostly concerned with the model's lavender silk get-up and straw shoes...
...were "interested in opening a concession on the moon to supply hot dogs, Cokes, etc., to tourists." A Catholic missionary from West Pakistan, who had heard there is no water on the moon, proposed to carry some with him for baptizing the newborn he would meet. An un-celestial Cuban reserved seats for himself and two women "because if we might settle somewhere, it is better for the passengers to be mixed...
Marriage Revealed. Judy Canova, 33 hillbilly entertainer; and Philip Rivero 37, Cuban importer; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Mexico, in June...
After Cuba's Ambassador Luis Machado y Ortega presented his credentials to President Truman last week, reporters crowded round to ask the new envoy about Cuban sugar exports. "Cuba will give you all the sugar you need," Machado assured them, "[but] how about some ballplayers? This is one way of sending technical assistance to the U.S.-Point Four in reverse, you know...