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Eight years ago he forsook Mexico, moved with his wife into an apartment on Manhattan's East 93rd Street, where he reads up on astronomy and physics for inspiration and paints in a bare back room. Painting is no fun, he says; "it has to be done with our insides, our heart, even our intestines. The painter is like a mother bearing a child. It has to hurt a lot-and the more it hurts the more healthy it is." Mystified onlookers were relieved to hear that it hurt Tamayo...
...world Joyce wrote about was, on the surface, the city of Dublin, where he had lived until, at 22, he forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...
...Gordon Stanley ("Mickey") Cochrane, 43, sparkplug catcher of Connie Mack's great Athletics of the late '20s and Lefty Grove's battery mate. His lifetime batting average: a hefty .320. After managing Detroit for 4½ seasons (and spoiling his health and cheery disposition), he forsook baseball in 1938, is now working for a rubber company in Montana. ¶ Carl ("Meal Ticket") Hubbell, 43, the great "clutch" pitcher (he always won in a pinch). Lean and emotionless, he seldom used more stuff than he needed to get his man, seldom tried for strike-out records...
...mouthpiece of Moscow's serpentine line and the brain of the party's policies here, is a man named Gerhart Eisler. So, last week, said a man who ought to know: Louis Francis Budenz, the former managing editor of the Daily Worker who forsook Communism for Catholicism (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945). It was Eisler, said Budenz, who gave him directives right from the Kremlin's mouth...
When, at the crest of his fame, Eugene O'Neill forsook profitable playwriting for the delights of uncommercial creation, he committed himself to a predicament that many writers eagerly dream of. The idea worked well for a while. Then it stopped working well. Then it stopped working...