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...Matador Antonio Ordóñez, on the Spanish bullfighting circuit during the summer of 1959. Forewarned that Hemingway was setting him up for a critical clobbering by comparison with Ordóñez, Dominguín had already made his reply. Said he in Spain's weekly Gaceta Illustrada: "Hemingway considers himself an expert. Perhaps so, but not as much as he thinks. He is undoubtedly a great writer, but it's not enough to be a great writer to understand something like this. Perhaps it wouldn't even be enough if he were Spanish...
Almost every day this month, the Venezuelan government's ordinarily dry Gaceta Oficial has been publishing a flood of mouth-watering news. For the first time in eleven years, and for fabulous sums, the government is selling off new oil concessions, some from the rich, crude-soaked national reserves...
...whopping oil income of about $600 million a year. Selling new concessions is a way to get plenty of quick cash. With oilmen flying south on nearly every plane, and with the likes of Texas' Multimillionaire Wheeler-Dealer Clint Murchison settling down in Caracas' Hotel Tamanaco, the Gaceta Oficial will probably print a lot more exciting news in coming months...
...since 1924 had the Reglamento of the arena, instigated by Primo de Rivera, been revised. Last week, rejoicing was general throughout Spain when the committee finished, King Alfonso signed and the Gaceta Oficial published verbatim the taurine code revised, a document longer (ten quarter newspaper pages) than the text of the London Naval Treaty. Rejoicing was great, for just as cockfighting was resumed after the fall of strict Dictator Primo, so it was seen that Spain's bull- killing will regain a touch of ferocious color which "humane" Primo forbade. Permitted once more are the banderillas de fuego...
...London smart young dancing men have been observed smoking 'midget cigarets,' half standard size. The fashion was attributed to me under headlines: 'BETWEEN-DANCES FAGS MADE TO PLEASE WALES.' I have a midget cigaret case." Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the South Pole: "In Havana, the Gaceta de Policia displayed the picture of a face with notice of $2,000 reward for capture of the criminal so described. The face was mine. Next day, police officials confessed the error, denied that I was the criminal wanted." Elihu Root: "Last week, a few days after my 82nd birthday...
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