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...illegitimate daughter of a Spanish nobleman and an Ecuadorian peasant girl, was a remarkable young woman. She raised money and equipment when the Liberator's armies were flagging, took over affairs of state when he was in the field, followed him through the Andes on horseback with a column of troops, twice foiled plots to assassinate him-and once held off four mutinous officers with her sword while Bolívar escaped through a bedroom window...
...Homer works another miracle when, pressed into service as an evangelist at an old-fashioned hallelujah tent meeting, he inspires a crippled girl to walk. Although his tale is almost too short and slight to be put between hard covers, William Barrett (The Left Hand of God, Woman on Horseback) tells it with artful simplicity, and Homer retains the dimensions of a genuine folk hero...
Catherine Lacoste, 22, is a fair-to-middling horseback rider, an energetic handball, volleyball and basketball player, a strong bowler and-by her own admission-a "lousy" tennis player. Which may be a source of some disappointment to her father René, who as France's famed "Crocodile" of the 1920s, twice won the U.S. and Wimbledon championships. But girls are supposed to take after their mothers anyway, and Catherine's mother, the former Simone Thion de la Chaume, is a golfer-the winner of six French amateur titles. Last week, at the Cascades Golf Club...
...hand with the vast technical and industrial development of the area." In his latest haul, he is certain that he has netted at least two beauties: Zurbarán's Mystical Marriage of St. Catherine ("It gives you a feeling of serenity") and Goya's Man on Horseback ("It's fabulous-a joyful painting...
...fiction as fact. Mark Twain got his start in just this way when he was working for the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise. In one grisly fabrication, he described how a man murdered his wife and nine children, inflicted a mortal wound on himself, then rode four miles on horseback to a saloon where he brandished his wife's scalp. The tipplers, reported Twain, were much amused...