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Rookie Hartung's home run the first time up did nothing to stop the fast-growing Hartung legend. About all anybody really knew about Clint Hartung was that he is an overgrown, 24-year-old farm boy from Hondo, Texas. On an Army Air Forces team last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after...
...fact that the winning party was also a socialist party had its shock, too. Said Mayor J. A. Horger of Hondo, Tex. (pop. 2,500): "I was disappointed. I think they should have kept him in office. I don't favor this socialism and such." The New York Daily News, which has no love for socialists, interpreted it all as an unseemly British bender...
With the sorrowing lyrics of James Joyce (see above), U. S. readers last week could compare a noted poem in a professionally heartbroken tradition. Ballads in the styles called cante hondo and cante flamenco had been made up and sung by guitarristas in Andalusia for centuries before Spanish poets began consciously to exploit their simple metres and barbaric flair. In Spain and in Europe at large the acknowledged master of this school was Federico Garcia Lorca, a musician and theatrical producer who was shot by Fascist troops in Granada last year. His best poem, written in 1935, was the Lament...
...away from that repulsive killer. I shouted, a cold yell of horror, and my heart filled my chest and almost suffocated me. For I am afraid of rattlesnakes. Time and again today a rider got down from his horse and bat one to death with the heavy hondo of his lariat. It was a cruel and sinister country, that country of canyons and rocky gulches and rattle-snakes...
Meantime, pictures of Mussolini in his raceabout appeared all over the world last week, except in Italy. Manhattan's hotly anti-Fascist 77 Nuovo Hondo published a letter from an unnamed Italian fixing the time of the alleged accident at 2:30 p. m., Sept. 14, 1930. Excerpt: "Everybody knows about the case at San Quirito, yet no one has the courage to speak...