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Papa. Could she talk a little, then, about Ernest Hemingway, whose picture-with a fond inscription to the "Kraut"-she reverentially puts in all her dressing rooms? "That has all been publicized," she abruptly answers, then relents enough to add: "He knew me better than anybody, and naturally he could say it better than anybody." Naturally. "She is brave, beautiful, loyal, kind and generous," Papa began an encomium that is now reproduced on one of her record albums...
...very excited about the book and that it is coming out in LIFE," said the letter. "That makes me much happier than to have a Nobel Prize. To have you guys being so careful and good about it and so thoughtful is better than any kind of prize." Ernest Hemingway would wait two years for the Nobel: the guys made The Old Man and the Sea a part of literary history in LIFE's Sept. 1, 1952 issue...
...sided with Franco; the war was an apt testing ground for new weapons like the Stuka dive bomber. The Soviet Union backed the Spanish Republic and its Popular Front Government; so did Communists everywhere. Volunteers poured in from around the world, among them a brigade of intellectuals, including Ernest Hemingway, André Malraux, Arthur Koestler and George Orwell. The war was to shape their words forevermore. They carried the memory of it within their hearts, Albert Camus observed afterward, "like an evil wound." Camus explained why: "It was in Spain that men learned that one can be right...
SUNDAY: The Snows of Killmanjaro. As Hemingway movies go, one of the better. Gregory Peck portrays a played-out hunter-writer in this 1952 expansion of the short story, and Susan Hayward does the bitchy wife act. CH. 56. 2 p.m. Color...
...walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once a retreat of Mary Queen of Scots, Catherine de Medicis and Henry IV, where Ernest Hemingway set up his headquarters with advance units of the American Army about to retake Paris in 1944. Now Kissinger and Le Due Tho would be added to the guidebooks...