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...Find out who Traven is," Spota's editor had once told him, "and you will be a great reporter." From that day, Luis Spota had been a man with a mission. When he finished his stay at El Parque Cachú, Spota went back to Mexico City and wrote a strange and wistful story. It appeared last week in the magazine...
...with a Mission. To El Parque Cachú one day last month came Luis Spota, an aggressive, 25-year-old reporter from Mexico City. Friendly Luis Spota managed to penetrate the old man's rock-like reserve. They talked of many things, but not of the mysterious author B. Traven, the secret of whose identity had baffled a generation of admirers-including his publishers. Traven's books-sea, stories and Mexican adventure novels laced with bitter comments on the futility of modern man-have had a tremendous following in Latin America and in Europe...
...Trail. In his pursuit of Traven, Spota had got almost nowhere until last year. Then, during the filming of Treasure, Director John Huston was confronted one day by a little grey man who called himself Hal Croves. He was Traven's secretary, he said, come in response to Huston's call for advice from the author. Huston guessed that Croves was Traven himself...
Mexican Producer Luis Sánchez Tello, an associate of Huston's, later bumped into Croves in San Antonio, Tex., and at Croves's urgent request lent him $100. The loan was repaid by check. Spota never learned who had signed the check. But he discovered that Croves had been traveling on a U.S. passport, and that the check had been sent from Acapulco...
...Spota hurried there, and by some sharp questioning compiled a list of some 50 Americans who might have been drawing checks on Acapulco banks. One of them was Berick Torsvan, the proprietor of El Parque Cach...
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