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...that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
...National Lottery will hold a $2 million drawing. But a complete ticket costs $400, is not for the ordinary man. The bullfight, once the national sport, has also become the privilege of the few; big spenders pay from $20 to $30 for a seat each Sunday. At the jai-alai Frontōon four nights a week the betting is hysterical...
When in Chicago, he goes to night football games (his big lung is parked in a corner of the field and he looks on through his mirror). In Miami he is a constant spectator (and bettor) at jai alai games. His favorite sport: bridge, which he plays almost every night with his wife and friends. An expert, with a rating of three master points, he plans to compete in the national championships in Florida this winter...
When racing was banned, jai alai suddenly became the lone remaining form of pari-mutuel wagering in Miami - and in the rest of the U.S. Since then, Cuba's national pastime has boomed at Miami's Biscayne Fronton, where attendance last week was almost double last season's and mutuel betting more than double. One night 3,478 fans watched the Latins strut their stuff and bet a record $66,335 on their favorite pelota-slingers...
...played seven seasons in Shanghai before the war. The box-office star is Enrique ("Superman") Vallejo, a none-too-agile, 191-lb. Cuban who whips the ball with terrific force. Win, lose or draw, he is billed - and viewed by many female fans - as the Errol Flynn of jai alai...