Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From San Francisco to San Diego, thousands of Californians, shaken as though by a giant hand, jumped from their beds, felt the floor move eerily under their bare feet, heard an unearthly jangle of church bells, burglar alarms and shattering window glass at 4:52 a.m. They learned that they had felt the waves of a major earthquake, centering near the little mountain town of Tehachapi, Calif, (pop. 1,685), 75 miles north of Los Angeles...
Britain was not quite prepared for lean, well-weathered (57) Tennis Coach Eleanor ("Teach") Tennant and her apple-cheeked San Diego prodigy, Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly. Expecting to greet the same girlish, hard-playing bobby-soxer who wept with joy last September over winning the U.S. Women's title, English tennis fans were soon puzzling over a change in Little Mo. By the time she walked on to Wimbledon's center court last week for the Women's Singles finals, it was obvious what it was: Little Mo had changed into Killer Connolly...
When a fellow artist predicted that Diego Rivera's underwater murals at Mexico City's new waterworks were bound to wash away (TIME, June 18, 1951), Diego snapped: "Tell him to go to hell." Rivera mixed polystyrene with his pigments and coated the whole thing with transparent rubber. But last week, less than a year after the water began to flow over his murals, Diego had to acknowledge that the submerged parts were indeed beginning to fade. As usual, he had an explanation: "It is because of the bad quality of the water. It contains mud, crude...
...Painter Diego Rivera, who owns one of the world's best collec tions of Mexican archeological treasures, considers these contemporary masks as fine as those produced 1,000 years ago, and predicts that they will be museum pieces 1,000 years hence. They are, says Rivera, "a genuine expression of the plastic genius of the people of Mexico, combining the traditions of our ancient cultures with the contributions brought by the Spanish invasion. Along with the expressive potency of their forms and colors," Rivera adds darkly, "the masks have the black humor that enables our people to laugh...
...good as a treatment for sex offenders. They know that the operation destroys fertility and often has a marked effect on potency: they do not see how it can cure the sick mind in which the urge for sexual offenses is born. Nevertheless, Judge Lawrence N. Turrentine of San Diego got up before an audience of California sheriffs last week and asserted that, regardless of theory, castration works well in practice...