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Eight years ago he forsook Mexico, moved with his wife into an apartment on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, where he reads up on astronomy and physics for inspiration and paints in a bare back room. Painting is no fun, he says; "it has to be done with our insides, our heart, even our intestines. The painter is like a mother bearing a child. It has to hurt a lot-and the more it hurts the more healthy it is." Mystified onlookers were relieved to hear that it hurt Tamayo...
Proportionately few Negroes were put in combat units. The exceptions had good records: the 99th Pursuit Squadron, flying in Tunisia and Sicily (TIME, Sept. 20), the 93rd Infantry Division, fighting on Bougainville (TIME, May 29). Three weeks ago, at Fort Benning, Ga., a company of black soldiers made their first "combat" jump. They were the Army's first all-Negro parachute company. But Negro soldiers know that these are exceptions: 70% of Negroes are service troops...
...Negro troops, acceptance by their white comrades-in-arms was some thing to shout about. There had been gibes when units of the 93rd landed on Bougainville, on the heels of the Americal Division. The Americal knew by then what jungle fighting was like. They doubted that the "Tan Yanks" would stand up under the jungle's strange and silent horrors...
...93rd learned fast. They were resourceful. Corporal Lemon Hicks of Silver City, Miss, and four buddies got lost behind enemy lines. When they blundered into a command post they picked off one Jap, melted back into the thick and steaming underbrush. They ran into a Jap minefield and methodically picked their way through it. They located their own lines by the sound of distant artillery, finally crossed safely back. Said Lemon: "All of us prayed...
...night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...