Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Pancho Segura is the idol of Ecuador. Three years ago, at 16, he romped off with the tennis championship of the Bolivarian Olympics in Colombia. The following year, he won Argentina's River Plate tournament, the Wimbledon of South America. Last summer the Ecuadorian Government sent its beloved little Pancho to the U.S. to compete in the na tional championship at Forest Hills. Green on grass, young Segura did not last one round. But he stayed in the U.S., under the wing of Manhattan's Hispano Tennis Club, to try again this year...
...forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...
Died. Daniel Carter Beard, 90, American Boy Scouts' idol and guiding spirit; at Suffern...
Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...
...sexy Rudolph Valentino transferred the best-selling hero of Blood and Sand to celluloid, 19 years ago, he had an instinctive understanding of the part. In many ways his own career paralleled Juan's. An obscure and hungry Italian immigrant, he had become the most extensively worshiped matinee idol in the history of the theater. His kindred feeling for Juan Gallardo made the matador's tragedy seem real. His performance produced a character who was a shining, dominant personality in the arena, a vulgar poseur...