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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three second prizes, of $25 cach, went to Robert L. Fischelis '49 for his presentation of "Flammonde" by E. A. Robinson; Justin S. Colin '45, who gave a selection from John dos Passos entitled "Camera-eye No. 50"; and William G. Becker '51, who recited Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address...
...Find out who Traven is," Spota's editor had once told him, "and you will be a great reporter." From that day, Luis Spota had been a man with a mission. When he finished his stay at El Parque Cachú, Spota went back to Mexico City and wrote a strange and wistful story. It appeared last week in the magazine...
Just outside Acapulco, on the road to Mexico City, is a little garden restaurant called El Parque Cachú. Its proprietor, a grey little man known to his neighbors as el gringo, hid his Nordic blue eyes behind dark glasses as he served beer and tacos in the shade of his cashew trees...
...with a Mission. To El Parque Cachú one day last month came Luis Spota, an aggressive, 25-year-old reporter from Mexico City. Friendly Luis Spota managed to penetrate the old man's rock-like reserve. They talked of many things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe...
Spota hurried there, and by some sharp questioning compiled a list of some 50 Americans who might have been drawing checks on Acapulco banks. One of them was Berick Torsvan, the proprietor of El Parque Cach...