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...Bamba. As they do it at Giro's. La Bamba is actually a Mexican version of the Cuban rumba, but more of a bouncy folk dance. At one point the girl swings away from her partner, does a brief waltz step with a hop and a tap thrown in, while picking up her skirts and swishing them back & forth in flirty fashion. Nobody bothers about a ribbon on the floor, or singing while they dance, as the jarachos...
...Eggshells do not fall apart at the slightest tap of a spoon because the oval shape distributes the force of the blow around the whole egg. The Navy's Quonset huts-similarly curved-have survived winds of more than 100 m.p.h., including Williwaws in the Aleutian Islands...
...They made only a brief appearance in bathing suits. They wore evening gowns for the serious business -proving to the judges that they possessed "talent." Since many of them had confessed rather wildly to having no "talent" at all, the results were often novel. Some sang, some recited, some tap-danced, and one girl played Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life on the marimba. Hundreds of soldiers and wounded veterans who came to the theater to look at legs, came back, fascinated, night after night...
...allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'clock on Dec. 6. "As Short was unable to decipher the meaning," said the Board, "he did nothing about it and went on to a party...
...blond Wayne Chatfield Taylor, longtime New Dealer (AAA, Treasury, Commerce) and the man who gave Sewell Avery the heave-ho. In financing world reconstruction, his E.I.B. will assume a major role among Government agencies, for there is at present no other Government source which foreign nations can tap for the credits they must have. Until Bretton Woods' International Bank becomes a fact, E.I.B. loans will be a potent power in world politics and trade...