Ernest Hemingway Turns Detective
(Rec. 11.30 p.m.) HAVANA, June,s. Ernest Hemingway, the American author, turned detective today to disprove recurring versions that the. plot for his Nobel and Pulitzer prike-win-ning novel, ‘‘The 'Old Man and the Sea,” was given to. him by a 70-year-old Cuban fisherman. Miguel Ramirez. Irked by the publication in Havana of a Paris report that Ramirez actually was the “old man” of the novel, Hemingway, armed with a taperecorder and accompanied by witnesses, tracked down the old fisherman in the nearby village of Cojimar. Ramirez denied the report that he told Hemingway the story of a fisherman who fought and captured a giant
marlin swordfish after a struggle lasting three days and nights. Ramirez also denied the allegation that Hemingway had gone back on a promise to give him a motor-Boat. and that he was seeking legal redress. The statements were false. He was not personally acquainted with Hemingway and he was unable to explkin the origin of the reports, said Ramirez.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27988, 7 June 1956, Page 13
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