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...rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers for "Il Campionissimo" were nearly drowned by hoots, catcalls and loud cries of "Bravo Paulino" for the game loser...
...became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters...
Still the Porra did not rest, nor did an anti-Machado terrorist organization known as ABC. On Dec. 30 some member of ABC shot and severely wounded Sergeant Rafael Castro of the secret police, a Machado bravo who has been accused of several political murders...
Died. Vladimir de Pachmann, 84, famed Russian pianist; peacefully, of pneumonia; in Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...
...Bravo! Bravo Renaudel!" cried several Frenchmen while some Italians taunted "Isn't he pretty?" and others cried, "Down with France...