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...preparation for the Rivera story, TIME'S Art editor, Alexander Eliot, and Researcher Ruth Brine went to Mexico City to spend ten days with him. Their introduction to Mexican ways was abrupt and, in Eliot's case, painful. They had arranged to pick Rivera up at his home for dinner and, while waiting for him outside in the car, Eliot doubled up with a sharp, agonizing attack of what could only be dysentery. When Rivera came out to meet them, he regarded Eliot for a moment and said, simply: "There is a cure for this...
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Scoring the traditional Yuletide decorations, Brine's has devised a crafty exhibit that spins around, demonstrating the camber on an aluminum ski. Of course it's all a trick to get you inside the store to see the stock of winter sporting goods...
Knowing that the "murderer" often enjoys such a secure feeling during the preliminary grilling-and that the ways of journalism are not the ways of science-Ecker and Brine took this friendly admonition in stride and proceeded to exploit the clues that Oppenheimer had given them about the forces that had shaped his life. Accepting his theory that "education is apprenticeship," they set TIME'S world-wide network of correspondents to work seeking out the men he had apprenticed himself to- from San Francisco to Copenhagen-and cross-checking Oppenheimer's impressions with them...
While this voluminous dossier was being assembled, Ecker and Mrs. Brine spent several days at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, of which Oppenheimer is the head. They came away with enough information to fill a 57-Page report. At lunch in the Institute cafeteria a staff member told them that although the staff, the economists, the humanists, the mathematicians, etc. usually ate at their respective tables, Oppenheimer was at home with all of them. As for herself she added: "There's just no use trying to eat lunch with a mathematician. They won't leave...