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From the Gulf of California to the Strait of Magellan, 125 million Latin Americans braced themselves hopefully this week for the gayest, gaudiest carnaval in years...
...They Beat Me." For the Fitzgeralds, as for many of their contemporaries, the big toot was on-what Scott called "the greatest, gaudiest spree in history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults...
...Gaudiest of all the latter-day tramps was a loudly dressed, 2501b. giant named Charles Colfelt. A former Iowa bricklayer and California caterer, Colfelt breezed into Tegucigalpa at the head of a caravan of cars, trucks and house-trailers, and rented a whole floor of the Pan American Hotel. As president of the Honduran division of a Salt Lake City stock company called the "Pan American Mining and Development Co.," Colfelt announced that he had chartered a fleet of DC-3s to haul equipment upcountry, then began setting up drinks for all comers in the hotel bar. One suspicious investor...
...hang a prominent rebel as an example to the townspeople. But for the parson they are seeking (Victor Jory) they mistake a godless scamp (Evans) who is drinking tea with the parson's wife (Marsha Hunt). The scamp, however, insists on carrying out the imposture, and in the gaudiest traditions of melodrama has his neck in the noose when deliverance comes...
...avoided sensations like the plague. But at war's end, editors gave violent vent to long-suppressed enterprise and emotions. They soaked their pages in sentimental crime stories, enthusiastically badgered headliners from Winston Churchill to Ingrid Bergman, encouraged reporters and photographers to operate like workers in the gaudiest days of Chicago journalism...