The Bad Girl [antikvár]

The Chilean Girls That was a fabulous summer. Pérez Prado and his twelve-professor orchestra came to liven up the Carnival dances at the Club Terrazas of Miraflores and the Lawn Tennis of Lima; a national mambo championship was organized in Plaza de Acho, which was a great success in spite of the threat by Cardinal Juan Gualberto Guevara, Archbishop of Lima, to excommunicate all the couples who took part; and my neighborhood, the Barrio Alegre of the Miraflores streets Diego Ferré, Juan Fanning, and Colón, competed in some Olympic games of mini-soccer, cycling, athletics, and swimming with the neighborhood of Calle San Martin, which, of course, we won. Extraordinary things happened during that summer of 1950. For the first time Cojinoba Lanas fell for a girl—the redhead Seminauel—and she, to the surprise of all of Miraflores, said yes. Cojinoba forgot about his limp and from then on walked around the streets thrusting out his chest like Charles Atlas. Tico Tiravante broke up with Use and fell for Laurita, Victor Ojeda fell for Use and broke up with Inge, Juan Barreto fell for Inge and broke up with Use. There was so much sentimental restructuring in the neighborhood that we were in a daze, people kept falling in and out of love, and when