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After a quiet crossing from New York on the S.S. Flandre, Author Ernest Hemingway bared his teeth for Paris photographers at the Ritz when asked to appraise a salmon caught by his host, Charles Ritz, son of the late, famed Hotelkeep César Ritz. Before going on to hunt elephants in Africa, Hemingway hoped to do some fishing in the Pyrenees, told a French reporter he was traveling light with two fishing rods, two revolvers and no typewriter. "I started my writing career with a typewriter," he said. "Today I use a pencil...
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