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Apparently having nothing new to say about bullfighting, Barnaby Conrad, the ex-matador (now a 39-year-old man of letters), has collected the dying speeches, curses and quips of the great. As books of this kind frequently do, the volume has a preface by Clifton Fadiman, containing his own favorite examples of words uttered while the toes turned cold (and thought up, one suspects in some cases, well ahead of time). Samples...
Recovering in European hospitals after dire prognoses: Spain's Matador Número Uno Antonio Ordóñez, 29, who stumbled over his muleta at Malaga to receive his almost annual goring (a 6-in., 14-stitch groin wound), but, following a one-hour surgical mano a mano with death, was expected to return to the ring by month's end; and West Germany's pugnacious pacifist, Evangelical Church Pastor (and World War I U-boat Skipper) Martin Niemoller, 69, who, while vacationing in Denmark, suffered near fatal injuries in an auto crackup that killed...
...return to foreign domination. As in Anaheim and The Bronx, river boats are caught in rifle crossfire and nearly clobbered by beaver-felled trees, but Six Flags is no mere copy. Typically, the roofs of the train cars are titanic sombreros, a giant stuffed bull shaves past an overgrown matador, and landscapers have turned a Texas-sized swamp into "Xochimilco," the lake garden near Mexico City. Coming closer to home, an Indian chief holds storytelling sessions. No-good varmints hold up the bank, the post office, the train, the stagecoach ride; and the legendary Judge Roy Bean administers his rule...
...hotel-warmers attended a bullfight, at which the stocky Prince gamely assisted a matador and took a royal pratfall as the bull charged. No press cameras were permitted, but Princess Grace dutifully filmed her husband's moment of truth. "You should see what a terrible stare these beasts give you when you get close to them," confided Rainier breathlessly. At one dinner Elsa got one up on Hedda by taking over the piano to play Cole Porter tunes, accompanied by Rainier on drums. Then Ari bellowed the theme song (in Greek) from the movie Never on Sunday, while...
Unity of Spirit. Matador Fisher is no Manolete. He has not distinguished himself as a brilliant thinker, magnetic speaker or prophetic leader, like his predecessor, Dr. William Temple. His pipe-smoking good humor and gregariousness have made him a delight to get along with ("Quarreling with him is impossible," says one of his canons). He administered the Anglican Church with the same efficiency he once showed as headmaster of Repton, one of Britain's best schools; and his clergy, though woefully underpaid, is better off than when he took office. But he failed to inspire the majority of Anglicans...