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...because of the astonishing variety of Armstrong's encounters: Serbian patriots, Yugoslavian royalty, Poincaré, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt. He savors characters like Rumania's giddy and theatrical Queen Marie, who once told him, "Like clowns [royal families], amuse people, even with their funerals." One night in Madrid, Ernest Hemingway, otherwise charming, kept threatening to seek out Novelist Louis Bromfield and beat him up for some obscure slight...
...next chapter in Evita's posthumous peregrinations began 14 years later. Last month a man calling himself Carlos Maggi, "brother" of the fictitious Maria, received permission for the exhumation and transport of Maria Maggi's remains to Madrid. The coffin's wooden casing was found to be rotting, but the coffin itself, reportedly of silver with a glass window showing the woman's face, was in excellent condition. So was the corpse. After Evita's death, Perón paid the famed Spanish pathologist Pedro Ara $100,000 to embalm her body...
Return. After paying a Milan funeral firm $1,280 in cash to transport the body to Spain, "Carlos Maggi" took his seat beside the funeral-van driver for the trip to Perón's closely guarded house in a swank section on the outskirts of Madrid...
Will the Prince of Spain ever become King? Madrid last week was alive with speculation that Prince luan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon, 33, will be crowned in October. The move, which might be announced within the next couple of weeks, will be the most significant political development in Spain since the end of the Civil...
...turns. But it is strung together in the end by the quasi-poetic image of Jake's mysterious cousin Joey, the horseman of the title. Joey is a movie stuntman, baseball player and soldier of fortune whose vaguely charted wanderings seem to take in all the barricades, from Madrid in 1938 to Jerusalem in 1967. Jake, convinced that Joey is now in Paraguay pursuing the infamous Dr. Mengele of Auschwitz, also sees him as a kind of Jewish Batman, a conscience, an avenger. Jake's real growth in the novel is an evolution from Joey's advocate...