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...young, who have branched out from the standard English and American ballads to the blues (whose high priest is Josh White), labor union songs, Scottish and Irish ballads (Annie Laurie, Cockles and Mussels), and international songs (of which Theodore Bikel is the exemplar). The songs, says one aficionado earnestly, "are a fine way to tell about yourself. Almost nobody has the words to really talk about their lives. With the guitar and some old songs, you can hint about it though...
...outstanding matadors in the 1920s and the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's stalwart hero, Pedro Romero, in The Sun Also Rises, who sired a family of five bullfighting sons, including Bull Slayer Numero Una Antonio Ordonez, whose suspenseful competition with Luis Miguel Dominguin was chronicled by late Aficionado Hemingway in The Dangerous Summer; of pneumonia; in Madrid...
...that. Most of what we have been told, in fact, in the last three weeks and the last thirty-five years, has nothing to do with the novels and the stories that count. The Gableish-looking hero who collected wives and bruises and buffalo horns, the bewhiskered old Aficionado may have been the same man who wrote The Sun Also Rises and For Whom the Bell Tolls and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber"--but it doesn't seem to matter...
...great China (pronounced Chee-nah) model fashion's new couture-inspired designs that you can sew yourself," cried the six-column newspaper ad for Macy's 1961 Spring Fabric Fashion Show. "Whether or not," continued the pitch, "you're an aficionado who adores China's rhythmical stroll along fashion's illustrious runways, you must come see her . . ." What made the invitation ir resistible was the accompanying portrait of "the great China," a model of ex quisitely earthy elegance - who makes her own clothes. Born in Shanghai of a Portuguese father and a Siamese mother, China...
Before the Bulls. Ruddy and trim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), Bensinger likes sports and travel almost as much as his job. He has shot pigeons with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, sipped wine with Pablo Picasso in Paris, played golf with Sam Snead. An aficionado, he has run before the bulls in Pamplona's festival of San Fermin and ried out his cape work against calves on [uan Belmonte's ranch in Spain. He has ished all over the world, once fired into a flight of blue-winged teal and killed eleven with a single shot. He even finds...