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...three-room hotel suite, Dominguin held court. He lounged on the bed in a black and cream silk dressing gown, chain-smoking black Mexican cigarettes and gracefully flicking the ashes to the floor. Behind him the phone jangled incessantly. ("Tell her I'm out," he would say, "and will be back in an hour.") Around him swirled admirers, newspapermen, photographers, bullfighters and favor-seekers, helping themselves to the free Scotch and brandy, and filling the room with smoke and babble. His three personal servants bustled to unpack 15 leather bags, containing 17 suits and a tailcoat, a small treasure...
LUIS MIGUEL DOMINGUIN, Spain's best bullfighter, came last week to conquer Mexico. As he appeared in the door of his plane, Dominguin gave the airport crowd a small, arrogant smile and a regal wave. Two burly bodyguards closed in beside him and a motorcycle escort whisked him off to his hotel...
...love is lost between Mexican and Spanish bullfighters; in fact, for several years before 1950 no Spanish matador was allowed in a Mexican bull ring. This was Dominguin's first professional appearance in Mexico, and his father-manager was anxious about his famous son's reception...
...Dominguin shooed his guests away; he wanted to talk business with his father and brother. The talk was in big figures. For each of his four fights in the Plaza Mexico he has been guaranteed $13,300, plus gate percentages that will bring the take up to about $22,800 for each fight. In his twelve years in the bull ring he has made a little under $2,000,000, and he has salted a lot of it away-some of it in Spanish hunting lodges and preserves, some in Colombian and Brazilian coffee investments, some in the National City...
After a 26-hour train trip from Paris, Rita Hayworth arrived in Madrid, without husband Aly Khan. Escorted by a group of Spanish playboys, Rita drove to a nearby town to watch Spain's No. I bullfighter, Luis Miguel Dominguin. Dominguin dedicated his bull to Rita ("The most beautiful woman in North America"), and Rita rose to acknowledge the honor ("Good luck to the handsomest man in Spain"). After he had killed his target, Dominguin gallantly presented Rita with the ears and the tail of the bull...