Flying a stripped-down P-51, Pilot Woodrow ("Woody") Edmondson had rushed the gift from Washington to Havana in a record-breaking 3½ hours. A palace photographer was on hand to snap the presentation of a fine 15-lb. ham from Virginia's Governor William Tuck to Cuba's President Ramón Grau San Martín. Unwittingly, Virginia's Tuck had given Habaneros their joke of the month.
When Cubans want to say a politician has been grafting, they say esta en el jamónhe's in the ham. That was why last week's picture of Grau receiving the Virginia ham was good for Page One of Prensa Libre....
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