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...Spain sailed Novelist Ernest Hemingway to cover the Loyalists' side of the fighting for North American Newspaper Alliance, and Matador Sidney Franklin of Brooklyn to fight bulls...
Awarded. To Brooklyn Matador Sidney Franklin: a $7,000 judgment against Columbia Pictures Corp., whose cinema Throwing the Bull used his name in a "jeering, jocular and undignified manner'' (TIME, Dec. 31, 1934); by the New York State Court of Appeals, in Albany...
...times every 24 hours by Carnation's able cowhand, Carl Gockrell, who also milked the former world's champion milk producer in 1920 when the old record was set. To that cow Carnation erected a statue. Born nine years ago, Daisy was sired by Carnation's Matador Segis Ormsby, rated the greatest bull that ever lived. Twenty-seven daughters have each tested better than 19,000 Ib. of milk and 700 Ib. of butterfat. Five have topped 30,000 Ib. of milk, and seven have records of more than 1,000 Ib. of butterfat. Average...
...told--and these be worth $20 to $30 a head. Also, it was new to me that the great Cid himself is by patriotic tradition the original bull fighter. I did not catch whether Dr. Cline himself did ever bull fight, though I know were he as capable a matador as he be a story teller the bulls have little chance...
...sportsman and athlete before he was a writer, he played football, ran the 100 metres in 11½. An amateur matador, he killed his first two bulls when he was 15, was so badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann...