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After Gaona married Carmen Moragas, one of the most beautiful women of the Spanish stage, resentful aficionados pelted him with cushions and bottles. He swore never to fight in Madrid again. Dark-eyed Carmen soon left him to become the great & good friend of Alfonso XIII, but Mexican legend has since reversed the story: it was the Indian boy who got the king's girl...
...first season as bullfight impresario, Dr. Alfonso Gaona, flamboyant proprietor of a chain of optical shops, has provided Mexico City with some of its best corridas in years. Sunday after Sunday, five unknown 18-year-old novilleros have pulled crowds that filled the Plaza Mexico's 50,000 seats. Last week aficionados roared with delight, carpeted the sand of the bullring with flowers, when young Rafael Rodriguez-earned ears and tail for the sixth successive Sunday...
...Omar T. Pfeiffer, chief of staff at Camp Pendleton. Pfeiffer and the colonel exchanged salutes and pleasantries. But when asked for his credentials, the colonel had none. He was politely whisked away for questioning. After two hours, he came clean; he was no Russian but Reporter John D'Alfonso of the San Diego Journal, wearing a uniform rented from a Hollywood costume shop. He had been assigned by his paper to test "security" at the maneuvers...
...Journal was embarrassed to learn that D'Alfonso could (but wouldn't) be prosecuted for unauthorized use of the uniform of a friendly foreign power. But the rival San Diego Tribune-Sun was even more embarrassed. Said its banner headline, before the truth was out : RED COLONEL SEIZED AT S.D. MANEUVERS...
Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...