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Hemingway’s letters to Marlene Dietrich
Ernest Hemingway, the self-appointed “Papa” of the literary world, liked calling his women friends “daughter,” among them Marlene Dietrich, a bond documented in letters as steadfast, passionate and likely platonic.
The correspondence between the icons, who met aboard an ocean liner in 1934, details a complex, flirtatious relationship that offers no new evidence the pair ever were lovers.
Thirty letters Hemingway wrote between 1949 and 1953 to the German-born actress and singer were made available to the public for the first time recently at the Ernest Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston. The public can view the letters by appointment.
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Magic City by James W. Hall
Outside Snake’s window a slice of Miami moon hung like the blade of a freshly sharpened scythe. It was February 25, 1964, the night a dozen armed men in stocking masks came for the Morales family.
“Snake was twelve. Christened Manuel Ricardo Morales, early on he was tagged Culebra, or Snake, for his long sinewy body. A lean kid with a quirky brain. At a clinic on Calle Ocho a Cuban medico put a name to his condition. The boy recorded everything he heard or read or saw and could recite it back flawlessly. Its scientific label: eidetic memory.
“A gift from God,” the medic said.
“His cross to bear,” Snake would come to believe.
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