1960s Timeline

Apr. 9, 1962 - Juan Belmonte (pictured in 1955), the Spanish bullfighter who died yesterday, was reported today to have committed suicide. Initial reports had indicated that his death was caused by a heart attack. According to reports in Seville, his native city, he had been in poor health for a long time. It is difficult today to corroborate the rumors of Belmonte’s suicide. Relatives would confirm only that he suffered a head injury, which they initially claimed was the res

Mar. 8, 1962 - Unpublished novels by Ernest Hemingway (second from left) — possibly four of them — and dozens of stories and sketches have been brought to New York by the author’s widow. “I loved them, I’m mad about them,” Mary Hemingway (pictured between her late husband and Gary Cooper) said today in her apartment. Since the death of her husband last July 2 in Ketchum, Idaho, she has spent most of her time examining the vast amounts of unpublished work that he had stored in