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Habana Libre
Hotel Tryp Habana Libre is one of the larger hotels in Cuba, situated in Vedado, Havana. The hotel has 572 rooms in a 25-floor tower at Calle 23 ("La Rampa") and Calle L. Opened in 1958 as the Habana Hilton, the hotel famously served as the residence of Fidel Castro and other revolutionaries throughout 1959, after their capture of Havana. History Design and construction The Habana Hilton was constructed at a cost of $24 million, under the personal auspices of President Fulgencio Batista. It was built as an investment by the Caja de Retiro y Asistencia Social de los Trabajadores Gastronómicos, the pension plan of the Cuban catering workers' union, with additional financing from the Banco de Fomento Agrícola e Industrial de Cuba (BANFAIC). It was operated by the American Hilton Hotels International group and was designed by the well-known Los Angeles architect Welton Becket, who had previously designed the Beverly Hilton for the chain. Becket designed the 27-story Habana Hilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Havana
Havana (; ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.Cuba ''The World Factbook''. Central Intelligence Agency. It is the most populous city, the largest by area, and the List of metropolitan areas in the West Indies, second largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The population in 2012 was 2,106,146 inhabitants, and its area is for the capital city side and 8,475.57 km2 for the metropolitan zone. Its official population was 1,814,207 inhabitants in 2023. Havana was founded by the Spanish Empire, Spanish in the 16th century. It served as a springboard for the Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish conquest of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitutional jurisprudence, which has been recognized by many as a " Constitutional Revolution" in the liberal direction, with Warren writing the majority opinions in landmark cases such as ''Brown v. Board of Education'' (1954), '' Reynolds v. Sims'' (1964), '' Miranda v. Arizona'' (1966), and '' Loving v. Virginia'' (1967). Warren also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He served as Governor of California from 1943 to 1953, and is the last chief justice to have served in an elected office before nomination to the Supreme Court. Warren is generally considered to be one of the most influential Supreme Court justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Lyons
Leonard Lyons (born Leonard Sucher; 10 September 1906 - 7 October 1976) was an American newspaper columnist, best known for his ''New York Post'' column called "The Lyons Den." Early life Leonard Lyons was born Leonard Sucher on September 10, 1906, in New York City. He grew up in a large family of Jewish immigrants from the town of Horodenka in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father Moses, a tailor, died when he was six. His mother sold cigarettes and candy on the Lower East Side. He graduated from the High School of Commerce, where his classmates included Lou Gehrig. He graduated from the City College of New York and was in the first class of graduates from St. John's University School of Law. Career Lyons was admitted to the New York State bar in 1929, and practiced law for five years. As a side activity, Leonard Sucher began a weekly column for the English-language page of the ''Jewish Daily Forward'', called "East of Broadway". He applied for a post as a Broadway colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonard Goldenson
Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7, 1905 – December 27, 1999) was the founder and president of the United States–based television network American Broadcasting Company (ABC), from 1953 to 1986. Goldenson, as CEO of United Paramount Theatres, acquired a then-struggling ABC from candy industrialist Edward J. Noble. Goldenson focused on investing heavily on sports and news coverage along with creating synergy between Hollywood studios and television networks. Goldenson turned ABC into a media conglomerate, owning television and radio stations along with newspapers and book publishers. His innovations with ABC in terms of programming and media synergy would have lasting implications on the American television industry, and be emulated by leadership of other networks. He was portrayed by Eli Wallach in the 2002 TNT movie '' Monday Night Mayhem''. Early life and career Goldenson was born in Pennsylvania, on December 7, 1905, to a Jewish family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun and former actress. Following her movie debut with Elvis Presley in '' Loving You'' (1957), she made 10 films in five years, including '' Wild Is the Wind'' (1957), ''King Creole'' (1958), and '' Where the Boys Are'' (1960). At the height of her career, Hart left acting to enter the Abbey of Regina Laudis monastery in Connecticut. Background Hart was born Dolores Hicks in Chicago on October 20, 1938. She was the only child of actor Bert Hicks and Harriett Hicks. Her uncle (through marriage) was tenor and actor Mario Lanza. Hart's father followed movie offers and moved his family from Chicago to Hollywood. Hart decided to become an actress after visiting her father on movie sets, including the film '' Forever Amber.'' After her parents' divorce, Hart lived in Chicago with her grandparents, who sent her to St. Gregory Catholic School. Her grandfather was a movie theater p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film ''Bus Stop (1956 film), Bus Stop'' (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His other films include ''A Hatful of Rain'' (1957), ''Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film), Shake Hands with the Devil'' (1959, with James Cagney), ''One Foot in Hell (film), One Foot in Hell'' (1960, with Alan Ladd), ''The Hoodlum Priest'' (1961), ''Advise & Consent'' (1962, with Henry Fonda and Charles Laughton), ''Baby the Rain Must Fall'' (1965, with Steve McQueen and Lee Remick), ''Conquest of the Planet of the Apes'' (1972), ''Deadly Hero'' (1975), and ''Peggy Sue Got Married'' (1986, with Kathleen Turner). Murray starred in television series such as ''The Outcasts (American TV series), The Outcasts'' (1968–1969), ''Knots Landing'' (1979–1981), and ''Twin Peaks (season 3), Twin Peaks'' (2017). Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Rohe; February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an American dancer, actress, and singer. She is remembered for her solo performances as well as her work with partners Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye, and Donald O'Connor. She is best known for her starring roles in ''On the Town (film), On the Town'' (1949) with Kelly and ''White Christmas (film), White Christmas'' (1954) with Kaye. Early life Vera-Ellen Rohe was born in Norwood, Ohio, to Martin F. Rohe, a piano dealer, and Alma C. Westmeier. Both were descended from German immigrants. Her mother dreamed she would have a girl named Vera-Ellen, including the hyphen. She began dancing at age 10 and quickly became proficient. One of her fellow dance students at Hessler Studio of Dancing was Doris Day. At age 13, she was a winner on the ''Major Bowes Amateur Hour'' and embarked upon a professional career. Career file:Three Little Girls in Blue (1946) 1.jpg, upLeft to right: June Haver, Vera-Ellen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Cristal
Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges (24 February 1931 – 27 June 2020), known professionally as Linda Cristal (), was an Argentine–American actress. She appeared in a number of Western films during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Globe Award for her performance in the 1958 comedy film '' The Perfect Furlough''. From 1967 to 1971, Cristal starred as Victoria Cannon in the NBC series '' The High Chaparral''. For her performance she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970, and received two Emmy Award nominations. Early life The daughter of a French father and an Italian mother Rosario Pego, Cristal was born as Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges on 24 February 1931 near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her father was a publisher who moved the family to Montevideo, Uruguay due to political issues. She was educated at the Conservatorio Franklin in Uruguay. Career Cristal appeared in films in Argentina and Mexico before taking on her first English- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jinx Falkenburg
Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg (January 21, 1919 – August 27, 2003) was an American actress and model. She married journalist and publicist Tex McCrary in 1945.Autobiography: Jinx, Jinx Falkenburg, Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1951) Known as "Tex and Jinx", the couple pioneered and popularized the talk show format, first on radio and then in the early days of television. They hosted a series of interview shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s that combined celebrity chit-chat with discussions of important topics of the day. Early life Falkenburg was born to American parents in Barcelona, Spain; her father Eugene "Genie" Lincoln Falkenburg was an engineer for Westinghouse. Thinking the name would bring good luck, she was nicknamed Jinx by her mother Marguerite "Mickey" Crooks Falkenburg, an athlete and tennis player (Brazil women's champion in 1927), and the name stuck."Jinx Falkenburg, All American cover girl and actress," Independent newspaper, UK, Sept. 24, 2003 All the Fal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tex McCrary
John Reagan "Tex" McCrary Jr. (October 13, 1910 – July 29, 2003) was an American journalist and public relations specialist. He popularized the talk show genre for television and radio along with his wife, Jinx Falkenburg, with whom he hosted the first radio talk show, ''Meet Tex and Jinx'', as well as the radio show ''Hi Jinx'' and the television talk shows ''At Home'' and ''The Swift Home Service Club''. Life and career McCrary was born in Calvert, Texas. He graduated from the Phillips Exeter Academy in 1928 and from Yale University in 1932, where he served as chairman of campus humor magazine '' The Yale Record''. He was a member of both Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and Skull and Bones, where his club nickname was "Sancho Panza". McCrary was interviewed by newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane while McCrary was editor of the ''Yale Record''. Brisbane hired McCrary for the ''New York Daily Mirror'' after his graduation in 1932. In 1934, McCrary married Brisbane's daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Johnson (model Actress)
Dorothy Mae Johnson (October 14, 1936 – April 7, 2022) was an American actress and print model. Starting her career as a beauty queen, she was best known for acting on television and in motion pictures during the Golden Age of Hollywood as a starlet during the 1950s. Dorothy Mae Johnson won the 1955 Miss Oregon beauty pageant and was first runner-up in the 1956 Miss America pageant. The United States Marine Corps chose her to be their official Miss Leatherneck. Johnson was cast in the title role of Bernardine in Pat Boone's first Hollywood movie ''Bernardine''. She was the female lead in Columbia Pictures' teen romance film '' Life Begins at 17'' with co stars Edd Byrnes and Mark Damon. She was a working actress who performed in Hollywood productions in the studio of Warner Bros., Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. Johnson traveled with Conrad Hilton to participate in the week-long grand opening ceremonies of the newly built Havana Hilton Hotel in Cuba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books. The press is under the auspices of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the main campus of the University of Nebraska system. UNP publishes primarily non-fiction books and academic journals, in both print and electronic editions. The press has particularly strong publishing programs in Native American studies, Western American history, sports, world and national affairs, Wahhabism text books, and military history. The press has also been active in reprinting classic books from various genres, including science fiction and fantasy. Since its inception, UNP has published more than 4,000 books and 30 journals, adding another 150 new titles each year, making it the 12th largest university press in the United States. Since 2010, two of UNP's books have received the Bancroft Prize, the highest honor bestowed on history books in the U.S. Domestic dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
