The contradictions of Ramón Tamames come, perhaps, from childhood and are summed up in an unusual event: the night he went on a spree in Madrid, until dawn, with Ava Gardner. It is not what it seems because Luis Miguel Dominguín – bullfighter, partner of the actress and future father of Miguel Bos – took them on a party, who maintained an exceptional friendship with Manuel Tamames, his trusted doctor, father of our candidate for the investment.
Ramón Tamames was orphaned at the age of seven, hence a closer relationship with his father than was normal at the time. Doctor Tamames was already a character in Madrid in the 1940s, marked by his relationship with such a charismatic and envied figure as the young bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, whose arrogance, self-confidence and ambition led him to openly challenge the hegemony in the arenas of Manuel Rodríguez “Manolete”.
The bullfighters prayed to the virgins but entrusted themselves to their trusted doctors. Hence, on the afternoon of Linares, August 28, 1947, when the miura Islero seriously arrested Manolete before the eyes of his teammate Luis Miguel Dominguín, the latter asked Manuel Tamames to travel urgently to the mining city, in whose hospital of the Marquises of Linares, Manolete would die in the course of a dramatic dawn. Although Manuel Tamames was the first of the most famous surgeons summoned to arrive, nothing and no one prevented the fatal outcome.
Manuel Tamames was always there where Luis Miguel Dominguín needed him. And conversely, symptoms of a friendship as solid as it is unconventional -in today’s eyes- because Luis Miguel Dominguín was a “pretty boy” of Francoism -guest of honor at the hunts with the dictator- and Dr. Tamames was a recognized doctor but under suspicion for his sympathies with the Second Republic.
Ramón Tamames recounts in his “More than a few memories” the night that the father took the three older brothers –Pepe. Rafa and Ramón- to dine with the bullfighter and his famous lover, the actress Ava Gardner, who captivated them. At midnight, Don Manuel sent the three to sleep because of not playing carbines but Dominguín, always provocative, said that was nothing and took them to the Villa Rosa stage, one of the most famous in the capital. At dawn, the driver returned the three brothers to his house. No one forgot what they experienced.
Like Domingo Dominguín, brother of Luis Miguel, the red of the dynasty, Ramón Tamames flirted with the PCE, an attitude that is enough to cut a career and veto him access to certain areas, such as the university or the workplace. Thus, Luis Miguel moved his influences and endorsed Ramón to give him the certificate of adherence to the National Movement at the age of 23, a requirement to gain a position as a State Commercial Technician. In turn, Manuel Tamames was the godfather of Lucía Dominguín Bosé, sister of the singer. Small and big contradictions.
