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...Critic" stars Hurd Hatfield as Dangle, the aficionado of the theatre, and Jerry Kilty as Puff, the playwright. This pair mugs and gestures delightfully through a rehearsal of Puff's ludicrous tragedy, "The Spanish Armada...
...empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...approximately 13 years after that, hardly anything was heard about Seltzer's contribution to organized Armageddon. Then, aided by an increase in the number of television-owners, the Roller Derby all of a sudden sprang full-blown, much like Canasta. The true aficionado knows at least a few of the regular contes-around quite so fast as the men, who hit 35 m.p.h., but they provide more action, past performances and thus he knows who is good and who isn't, who the rough one are and who the fast ones are. This, of course, heightens the interest when...
...midst of a torrid political campaign, some years ago, in a Central American country, Pitcher Leroy ("Satchel") Paige and his barnstorming Negro team arrived in town. One of the candidates, a longtime aficionado of beisbol and Satchel, made his rival a sporting proposition: let the election turn on the game; he would bet on Satchel, and whoever won the bet would win the election. The bet was made. Satchel won in a breeze, but. didn't stick around for thanks: he detected the flash of machetes from the defeated candidate's supporters...
...follow in the footsteps of Brooklyn-born Matador Sidney Franklin, young Julian Faria, also of Brooklyn, made his debut as a bullfighter in Reynosa, Mexico. As his first bull charged, a horn caught in the buttons of his pink, skintight pants, ripped them open. The crowd laughed. Commented an aficionado: "Ay! Esos tipos de Brooklyn...