Word: diego
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Diego Rivera, the Western Hemisphere's greatest living painter, is working on a mural that will be half under water. Last week, at 64, the frog-shaped Master was completing his work in a Mexico City tank that looks like an empty swimming pool; actually, it is the distribution chamber of a new water-supply system for Mexico City...
...made no tight, preparatory sketches, believing that murals should be designed on the spot. "If you work in a small scale," Diego explains in his slow, benign way, "your amplifications are never in scale or in real relation to the light of the building or the possibilities of looking at the painting...
...Freud as calmly as did James Tucker Fisher. Perhaps it was his background. Fisher spent the best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...
...husky .423; Outfielder Larry Doby, whose .326 led all Cleveland hitters last season, made him fourth ranking batter in the league; Rookie Simpson, who last year led the Pacific Coast League in runs batted in (156), in total bases (403), and rapped out 33 homers for the San Diego Padres...
...best stories was the Art section's cover on Diego Rivera, the only man ever to paint his own cover portrait on commission from TIME. Some of the other cover stories along the way: Puerto Rico's Governor Muñoz Marín, Nicaragua's Boss Somoza, Mexico's President Alemán, Brazil's President Vargas...