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		</div><p>An annual Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest in the US has been won by a white-bearded Wisconsin man who was celebrating his 68th birthday.</p>
<p>The contest is the highlight of Key West’s annual Hemingway Days celebration.</p>
<p>Gerrit Marshall, a retired television broadcast engineer from Madison, prevailed at Sloppy Joe’s Bar, a frequent hangout of Hemingway when he lived in Key West during the 1930s.</p>
<p>“This is the best birthday I have ever had,” said Mr Marshall, whose birthday falls just one day after the July 21 anniversary of Hemingway’s birth.</p>
<p>On his 11th attempt, Mr Marshall triumphed over nearly 140 other entrants in the contest that featured two preliminary rounds and the final.</p>
<p>Competitors in sportsman’s attire, most emulating the rugged “Papa” persona Hemingway adopted in his later years, paraded onstage at Sloppy Joe’s before a judging panel of previous winners.</p>
<p>Mr Marshall said he shares several characteristics besides his appearance with Hemingway, and has written both non-fiction and short fiction.</p>
<p>“Like Hemingway, I have a love of the outdoors; I love fishing one heck of a lot,” he said.</p>
<p>However, he said that he cannot match the late author’s tally of four marriages.</p>
<p>“I only have one wife, but that doesn’t matter — that’s all I need,” said Mr Marshall.</p>
<p>Hemingway Days salutes the Nobel Prize-winning author, who wrote enduring classics including For Whom The Bell Tolls and To Have And Have Not while living in Key West from 1931 until late 1939.</p>
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