People, Jul. 19, 1954

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Landing in Manhattan after a seven-month European concert tour, Peru's multi-octaved Singer Yma Sumac, with her son Charles, 5, in tow, bumped smack into immigration officials who detained her at the pier for an hour, then confined her to the New York City area pending a hearing this week. In tearful confusion, Yma wailed: "I didn't kill. I didn't rob. I didn't nothing. What?" Yma and her husband, Peruvian Composer Moises Vivanco (similarly treated when he returned to the U.S. last month), blamed the...

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