Word: travenous
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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...
...John Huston allows your correspondent to write: "Many of Traven's suggestions for the movie treatment were so intelligent and knowledgeable (a terrible word) that Huston was fascinated, and wanted to meet him.". . . How, then, is it that Mr. John Huston can say that he "was pretty certain" that I was Traven, when at one instant he says that Traven's suggestions fascinated him and with the same breath he declares "Groves made no worthwhile suggestions." Who is who now, and what is what...
...Says Producer John Huston: "On my recommendation, an offer was made to Traven some years ago to collaborate with me on the script of Treasure and Traven accepted. [But he insisted] that he would have to come northward to Hollywood in stages, acclimatizing himself latitude by latitude, and that that would take months, so negotiations were abandoned...
...Personally, I would deplore any definite proof that Groves and Traven are one. Traven has worked very hard at being mysterious ... in a world where too much is known about too many...