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...Paco Camino, whom experts regard as Número Uno today. They call El Cordobés a novice, sneer at his clumsy work with the capote, the large cape, and his limited repertory with the smaller muleta; they say he is a hacker with a sword, killing slowly and without style. Far from being Número Uno, says one Mexico City expert, "he is a little clown, a tourist's bullfighter." But one thing everyone agrees on is El Cordobés' courage. No one ever worked closer to the bull, no one has ever exhibited...
Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...
...lightweight race over the longer Henley distance told a different story, however, as the low stroking boat of Sam Putnam captured the traditional Hacker...
Rowing for the traditional Hacker's Cup, a plain china cup and saucer, four lightweight crews will row the Henley distance over the Charles River Basin course...
...Historian Louis Hacker of Columbia University, the current college generation is a trifle depressing. "I find no political interest any more," says he. "There's no cultivation of heterogeneity. We're not looking for the maverick." But Yale's Dean William De Vane says: "I see no danger in the degree of conformity among students. Indeed, I do not believe that they conform as readily as my college generation 40 years ago." Both a puzzle and a fascination to their professors, today's college students have earned a new nickname. See EDUCATION. The No-Nonsense Kids...