Hemingway

April, 1957

Hemingwaya title bout in ten roundsRound 8: "Death in the Afternoon" I Began to Catch On when they hooked a wooden raft on the stern of our boat and started wiring our tuna to the raft. Then I saw what he had meant by "the tools." He got them out of his boat. Some tools. One was a sawed-off repeating shotgun that looked like a howitzer. Instead of buckshot each shell was loaded with 10 or 12 big steel ball-bearings about the size of a .45 slug. It had once belonged to gangste...