Word: traven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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. In the U.S. he was virtually...
...story proved beyond a doubt that el gringo was born in Chicago of Swedish parents 58 years ago; that he had lived in Mexico since 1913; that he had once worked in the Tampico oilfields. It proved that his name was Berick Torsvan-and that he was B. Traven...
...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...
When he said so, Croves flinched and began to make the wildest suggestions about the film. "Traven in contact with people," Huston said afterwards, "disintegrates and becomes ridiculous. And he is intelligent enough to know that he is ridiculous." When Huston's story was published (TIME, LIFE, Feb. 2), Croves denied it in caustic letters to both magazines...