Word: gaucho
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...drawing lesson and he swears he couldn't draw a straight line if his life depended on it. In a style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative Arts in Buenos Aires, has described...
...enough careers in his 84 years to make such celebrated literary men of action as Doughty or Wilfrid Blunt seem sedentary by comparison. Leaving school before he was 17, he sailed to South America, traded in cattle and mules, traveled across Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, learned to ride like a Gaucho and usually lived like one. At 27 he married a Chilean, "Gabriella, the daughter of Don Francisco Jose de la Balmondiere," took her on a honeymoon, part of which was a trip by wagon and horseback from San Antonio, Tex. to Mexico City. In 1879 this journey took 50 days...
...Argentina, where cattle raising is the national industry, polo is the national sport. The majority of the game's good players are not socialites as they are in the U. S., but ganchos (cowboys). Manuel Andrada, the Babe Ruth of Argentina, is a gaucho who has been playing high-goal polo for 30 years. Gazzotti, South America's No. 1 player, is a middle-class businessman. Luis Duggan and Roberto Cavanagh are third-generation, European-schooled sons of rich Irish-Argentinian ranching families. Cavanagh, at 20, is currently considered the most promising poloist in the world...
...SEGUNDO SOMBRA: SHADOWS ON THE PAMPAS-Ricardo Güiraldes-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). The life of a gaucho on the South American prairie. Has been called the Argentinian Huckleberry Finn...
Mostly the revolutionaries seemed to be young swaggerers, spunky fellows with bright red handkerchiefs knotted "carelessly" about their throats, each supplied with a gleaming Mauser rifle. Sweethearts sewed on rebel shoulders a knot of green, red and yellow ribbons. Gaucho rebels, former "cowboys," swung over their shoulders brilliantly dyed saddle blankets of sheepskin. Marching and singing, the would-be-fighters were frequently beset by females, plied with edibles...