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...with a monocle screwed in his eye, the duke blasts through the open bedroom window at a target on the other side of the patio. After the fusillade, the duke lays down his pistol, ducks into an ice-cold tub. After he has worked himself into his silver-mounted charro (cowboy) outfit, he starts for church on the run, shadow-boxing vigorously...
Well-Preserved Ruin. After breakfast Don Carlos reads for a while; one day it may be a chapter from Don Quixote, the next a treatise on heraldry. Then he mounts one of his two horses, rides out to the Rancho del Charro, puts the horse through its paces. Eleven o'clock finds him downtown at the Banco de Mexico, in spats and morning coat, checking over his investments. Sometimes he growls: "The Revolution has stripped me!" (In 1910 he owned 4,000,000. acres, now has ten.) The atmosphere of ruin is somewhat dissipated when he adds: "Only...
Such heresy means nothing to old Don Carlos, busy at his afternoon literary labors. As the first charro of Mexico, he has written five books and 700 articles on charro horsemanship. Last week he took time out from writing to lead the parade at a benefit charro show and expertly toss a few steers by their tails...
...responsible for the sweep is a 35-year-old Mexican colonel, Humberto Mariles, who works at his job as systematically as any football coach. Born on a ranch and a seasoned charro (cowboy) by the time he was 13, Humberto was sent to a Mexico City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...
...Rancheros are the outstanding trio of male singers and guitarists. These three small-town boys went to Mexico City to get in the movies, took to singing together in nightclubs in gold-braided black charro (cowboy) costumes. They have since broadcast for NBC, played at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, are now in Argentina. To delicate touching of the guitar and impeccable rhythm they add three fine voices in almost tangent harmony. When they are sweet they are very, very sweet, as in the sad, melodic Hace Un Ano (A Year Ago), Las Mananitas (Mornings), Adids Mariquita Linda...