Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went on to become a respected painter whose work was hung in top U.S. museums. Last week De Diego won new honor and some more welcome cash: first prize ($2,000) in the "Steel, Iron and Men" exhibition at Alabama's Birmingham Museum of Art. Explains able Museum Director Richard F. Howard: "All that we asked was that [the artists] think about steel and iron . . . and of the men of many races, giants in body or mind, who dig the ores or make the metals . . ." De Diego's prizewinner (one of 500 entries) was a brilliantly colored fantasy...
Kitchen Murals. In his 53 years, wiry, cadaverous De Diego (who claims that he has gypsy blood) has tried his hand at everything from bullfighting to being the husband of a stripteaser. The son of a Madrid jeweler, Julio (pronounced "Hoolio'' even in Manhattan) left home at the age of 15, when his father objected to his artistic bent. He painted scenery for the Madrid opera, danced in Serge Diaghilev's ballet, went into the Spanish army to fight the Rifs in Africa. In 1923 De Diego set out to see the world. After his defiant gesture...
Prince Consort. In 1948, De Diego splashed onto the front pages by marrying Ecdysiast Gypsy Rose Lee, who declared: 'Julio and I can be happy together. I'm working on a play, Julio has his art, and we spend our evenings together." This bliss did not last, although the De Diegos are still legally married and remain good friends.* Says Julio: "I was not cut out to be prince consort. What is a man that he should have to follow his wife around?" Julio now lives alone in a grubby, two-room Manhattan studio, where he prominently displays...
...cooks lavishly (specialty of the house: spicy paella) and manufactures jewelry as a sideline. He is also working on a monumental history of the gypsies. De Diego has been an enthusiastic U.S. citizen since 1941. Said he last week as he flew off to Birmingham to collect his $2,000: "In Europe, they only pretend to know what is good. In America, they know...
...Diego, Gene Littler, national amateur golf champion, showed touring tournament pros how the game should be played. Over the par-72 course in the $15,000 San Diego Open, Amateur Littler fired rounds of 67, 66, 69, 72, beat the runnerup, Professional C. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, by 4 strokes...