Word: hotch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party in Manhattan last New Year's Eve, his hostess did a double take at his bushy new mustache, then decided on drastic measures. Recalls Hotchner with a wince: "She ripped it off the moment I walked in. " That could have been a moment of pain for "Hotch,"except that the mustache was a phony, held in place by a coating of spirit gum. Undaunted, he has sported his brush on several occasions since. "It's a great comfort when you're feeling low," he says. "It's as restorative as a Bloody Mary when...
...next 13 years they were inseparable friends. Although he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954, they were not Hemingway's most creative years. Yet he was busy and active. He and Hotch went fishing off Cuba, journeyed to Paris and Spain, toured the bullfight circuit and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted together in Ketchum, Idaho. All the time, Hotch was taking copious notes on his unique, complicated and often buffoonish friend...
...noted that Hemingway never wore underwear and seldom bathed in water; he preferred sponge baths with rubbing alcohol. Hotch listened patiently when Papa told tales about his sex life, some of them fanciful. Hemingway claimed, for example, that he had once shacked up with Mata Hari (obviously untrue, since 41-year-old Mata Hari was executed in 1917, a year before Ernest, then 18, got to Europe as an ambulance driver on the Italian front). On one occasion, Papa boasted drunkenly that he had sired a child by an African bride whom he had acquired on a safari (possibly true...
Papa had a bad temper, says Hotch. When he drank, he sometimes grew quarrelsome and querulous with his fourth wife, "Miss Mary," whom he adored and once described as "my pocket Rubens." He slyly made sport of pestering strangers by extravagantly praising something they wore. He was also a hypochondriac, forever lugging around samples of his urine. He was convinced that he had skin cancer (his own diagnosis), and grew his beard to cover the white scaling on his face...
Invasion of Privacy. Mary's next move was to ask the New York State Supreme Court to enjoin publication. The book invaded her privacy, she said, and it violated the confidential relationship that existed between Hotch and Papa. But her main argument was that it appropriated her literary property. The law holds that the author of a letter maintains ownership of its contents, and Mary claimed that her husband's estate, of which she is both executrix and beneficiary, maintained ownership of the material Hotchner had used in his book...