Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DIEGO UNION...
With the death of Diego Rivera in Mexico City last week at 70, the Western Hemisphere lost its most commanding painter and one of its thorniest personalities. A huge, suave, slow-moving, spherical creature with great sophistication and prodigious energy, he made a practice of overwhelming women-and all opponents but the last. The rich enjoyed him as a comradely collector and bon vivant (he left a million-dollar estate plus a collection of pre-Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept...
This dislike is somewhat understandable; the San Diego Strong Boy has never gone out of his way to be helpful to sportswriters; he is not an "I am as you desire me" individual. He has shown a proper disdain for the over-washed American public, spitting at fans and jumping over the barricades to assault his attackers...
...auto salesman will try anything once-as long as it sells cars-and over the years he has explored every gimmick from tears to stripteasers. But last week in San Diego, the Walt Tufford Plymouth agency signed the sales booster to top them all: a professional hypnotist named Richard N. Mikesell...
...thousand one-night stands and red-lit neon holes from San Diego to Baltimore. In a Beat as Big as a bass-fiddle, tight-drum Hot America. In the dull roar and muted chant of the Juke Box Generation. We shall survive--and prosper. Man, you heard it here...