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...ITCHING PARROT-Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizárdi-translation & introduction by Katherine Anne Porter -Doubleday, Doran...
...dead person of an old pal: "I saw hanging to a tree the impaled corpse of an executed man in his white gown and tall cap adorned with a red cross, his hands bound." Towards the virtuous end of his life Poll finds a new pal-"One Lizárdi . . . a sorry writer in your motherland, known to the public as 'the Mexican Thinker.' " Dying, he entrusts Thinker Lizárdi with his story. The Thinker adds his own account of Poll's pathetic death...
...Mexican Thinker. Joaquín de Lizárdi, the author of the Parrot's adventures, wrote only this novel, and did not even mean to do that. He was a political pamphleteer, and this fictional false-face for his ideas was his "last hope of outwitting the censorship, as well as of making a living by its sales. . . ." Serialized, it was suppressed at the eleventh chapter, published in full after his death...
...Liz Whitney said she would sell all her show horses except her white stallion Bon Nuit, concentrate on racing...
...player, owner of a famed racing stable, board chairman of Freeport Sulphur Co., backer of Gone With the Wind and stage hit Life With Father; he is now a dollar-a-year man with his friend Nelson Rockefeller's Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Married to Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus in 1930, he was divorced in 1940, paid a reported $3,000,000 alimony. Blonde Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, daughter of late famed Surgeon Harvey W. Gushing, also was married in 1930, also got her divorce from Captain Jimmy Roosevelt...