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...Spain's dashing ex-Matador Luis Miguel Dominguín, 29, whose chief exploit since quitting the bull ring was his fervent pursuit of much-chased Cinemactress Ava (The Barefoot Contessa) Gardner, it meant restoration to fame and fortune in one phenomenally fell stroke. News raced across Spain that Dominguín had won El Gordo ("the fat one"), the $1,125,000 first prize in the nation's biggest lottery of the year. To the press, Dominguín grandly announced that a million pesetas would go to the poor orphan lad who had pulled...
...Cuba, an old playmate of Actress Gardner's was having a quieter time. Retired Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Ava's escort in Spain and her guest later in Reno, was visiting with Author-Sports man Ernest Hemingway. Dominguin and white-bearded "Papa" put on cool shorts and tossed a hunting lance around for a while, but spent most of their visit together hunting fish...
Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spain's best, last week announced his retirement from the ring. He had come to Mexico last December for an American season of high promise. In his hotel suite, on arrival, he held court in a scene reminiscent of Hemingway; he remarked, while reflecting about the bulls, that "a goring is an unforgivable failure in a good bullfighter." But the high promise was not fulfilled, and a goring was the major reason...
Early in January, in Caracas, a bull drove a horn into Dominguín's upper right thigh, almost severing the big muscle in front of the bone. The wound, his eighth and worst, required an operation, performed in Mexico. Last week, still convalescing, he prepared to open the season in Bogotá. Over breakfast with a few friends, he mused, "I once loved bullfighting like madness. Now I've lost the joy of fighting. That's when fatal things happen. Today I'll make twelve, thirteen, fourteen thousand dollars-but it doesn't seem...
...fought that afternoon in the same big Santamaría bull ring where, eleven years earlier, in his first professional engagement, he had (as one critic said) "made every part of the arena tremble." Now the bulls were sluggish, and the performances lackluster. Dominguín's leg cramped up and unbalanced him at vital moments; there were times when some of the 15,000 disappointed Bogotanos booed impatiently...