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Well-Preserved Ruin. After breakfast Don Carlos reads for a while; one day it may be a chapter from Don Quixote, the next a treatise on heraldry. Then he mounts one of his two horses, rides out to the Rancho del Charro, puts the horse through its paces. Eleven o'clock finds him downtown at the Banco de Mexico, in spats and morning coat, checking over his investments. Sometimes he growls: "The Revolution has stripped me!" (In 1910 he owned 4,000,000. acres, now has ten.) The atmosphere of ruin is somewhat dissipated when he adds: "Only...
Smooth talker Bob Shepherd and pretty Mrs. S., after dinner at Don Phillips' rancho, are sure that Don has Toni of the Ritz in his kitchen. Dinner engagements are booked weeks in advance. Bob Simpson is selling his single seat at the symphony now that he has met a very attractive someone, frequently a Cowie guest. Arab Kingsley has been humming concertos and tearing telephone books in half looking forward to his violin sessions interrupted momentarily by disbursing afloat...
...Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
NIGHT OVER THE WOOD-Hugh Addis - Dodd, Mead ($2). On a California rancho well stocked with borderline cases, one corpse turns up in a well, another is headless in a sinister wood lot. Crime and kidding are capitally mixed...
Pepe's Chill. Pepe, like his two older brothers, learned bull fighting on the huge rancho granted his family 300 years ago by the King of Spain. He dispatched his first bull in Quito's Plaza Belmonte (named for the famed Spanish matador, Juan Belmonte) when he was 13. From his father and brothers he learned a deep love for Ecuador, the U.S. and liberty. As provocative as his verónicas are his attempts to get Ecuador to become the first South American nation to declare war on the Axis. As fierce as a toro...