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...smiles upon being presented with a third child, second daughter, Paola, by his wife, sometime Italian Actress Lucia Bose. But his face dropped when local newsstands suddenly blossomed with a Spanish edition of LIFE that contained the first installment of The Dangerous Summer, the account by grizzled Aficionado Ernest Hemingway of Dominguín's perilous rivalry with his brother-in-law, Matador Antonio Ordóñez, on the Spanish bullfighting circuit during the summer of 1959. Forewarned that Hemingway was setting him up for a critical clobbering by comparison with Ordóñez, Domingu...
...filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year than anyone else except Vanderford...
...fact, no other baseball fan in the world celebrates his sport with the bellowing fervor of the Caribbean aficionado. He has plenty to shout about: winter baseball brings back the home-town boys who have streamed north to the U.S. to find fame in the majors. In the nine leagues around the Caribbean this season, fans could get a close-hand look once again at such stars as the White Sox's Luis Aparicio (Venezuela's Rapinos), the Indians' Vic Power (Puerto Rico's Ca-guas), the Giants' Orlando Cepeda (Puerto Rico's Santurce...
...days a year the arena is rented out to cowboys, clowns and corn peddlers, does the drama-starved aficionado still throw garbage at the only bullfight to come along...
Many listeners complained about the faulty acoustics, saying that the music merely added to the din. A thoughtful aficionado objected that classical pieces and jazz were "too involved" to be enjoyed over a meal. Another House member warned against "trying to satisfy all the appetites at once...