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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...
...decades of the republic have so captured the hearts, the trust and the faith of the people." The New York Times's senior pundit, Arthur Krock, took a balanced look back across the Eisenhower years and nodded qualified approval: "Whatever the flaws and errors of his rec ord, however much he could have bettered the great contemporary benefits it bestowed, lasting benefits they were...
...Actress Lucia Bose. But his face dropped when local newsstands suddenly blossomed with a Spanish edition of LIFE that contained the first installment of The Dangerous Summer, the account by grizzled Aficionado Ernest Hemingway of Dominguín's perilous rivalry with his brother-in-law, Matador Antonio Ordóñez, on the Spanish bullfighting circuit during the summer of 1959. Forewarned that Hemingway was setting him up for a critical clobbering by comparison with Ordóñez, Dominguín had already made his reply. Said he in Spain's weekly Gaceta Illustrada: "Hemingway considers...
...Russian was still breathing down Johnson's neck in 1958 during the U.S.-U.S.S.R. track meet in Moscow. Weeks before, Kuznetsov had set a world rec ord of 8,014 points. In one of the memorable duels in sports history. Johnson defeated Kuznetsov 8,302 v. 7,897 to regain the world record-and find himself a hero to the Russians. Johnson was kissed on the cheek by Kuznetsov, a bouquet of flowers was pressed into his huge hand, and a band of jubilant Russians later tossed him into the air in triumph. "I'd gone over there...
...managed to get to Paris in 1912. His ambition was to paint, but he found himself "so fascinated by form that I was building paint upon my canvases a quarter of an inch thick. It became expensive, so I decided to find a medium I could af-i'ord." Back in the U.S., he supported himself and his wife, who died a year and a half ago, by designing textiles and making silverware and jewelry. His studio was soon filled with his lithe and delicate figures, but the public was not to get to know them for years...