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...visitors had better ponies but considerably less experience than the white-shirted U.S. veterans. But at any rate, Mexico's polo-playing President Manuel Avila Camacho was satisfied that his hand-picked team of brothers-José, Alejandro, Guillermo and Gabriel Gracida-had been beaten by the best team the U.S. could muster. The scores...
Ponies & Players. Last June Argentina's internationalists got as far north as Mexico, where they beat Camacho's boys by one goal. After waiting in vain for a U.S. invitation, the Argentine team sold 18 ponies to the Mexicans and went home...
...show was sponsored by Mexico's culture-conscious President Manuel Avila Camacho, who last year decreed an annual national prize for arts and sciences. (1945's prize went to an author, rotund little Dr. Alfonso Reyes, for his Criticism in the Athenian Age.) This year's 20,000 pesos ($4,140) will be awarded to an artist, plus 5,000 pesos each for the best example of painting, engraving, sculpture and architecture on exhibition...
...Avila Camacho had thrown the gates wide: Bellas Artes' marble and stained glass magnificence bulged with some 500 entries; more than 400 of them were paintings. Long halls were devoted to unknowns from all parts of Mexico. Their work ranged from flat, bright-colored primitives and the overfinicky naturalism of Sunday painters to imitations of imitations of the slick stuff produced in Mexico City...
...last week's show, Siqueiros wanted no part of President Avila Camacho's prizes. Said independent Painter Siqueiros: "A competition is for racing horses or fast automobiles. Not for artists...