Word: guatemala
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi rivalry, began courting Latin America, cultural and educational institutions on both sides of the Rio Grande have run a low fever of Pan-American good will. One result: an unprecedented exchange of Latin-American and U. S. art. Two months ago three Western Hemisphere cultural capitals-New Orleans, Guatemala City and San Salvador-started to do some handshaking on their own. The idea for this hands-across-the-Gulf was thought up by a New Orleans art patron, Doris Stone, whose father, big, angular Shipping Tycoon Samuel Zemurray, runs the ships of his United Fruit Co. to & from...
...Stone, a director of New Orleans' Arts & Crafts Club, invited El Salvador and Guatemala to send their best art for an exhibition in New Orleans' Royal Street Gallery, put up a $50 prize for the best painting from each country. Most of the Salvadoran and Guatemalan art looked about as Latin as a Saturday Evening Post cover. Prizes went to Guatemalan Jaime Arimany (for a tropical mountain scene), and Salvadoran José Media Vides (for a bevy of dark-skinned bathers-see cut}. Critics were politely rhapsodic...
...Salvador's other leading citizens for a look. Curiously, the most striking items of Southern U. S. art in the show (example: The Red Mill by New Orleans Painter Caroline Wogan Durieux) looked more Latin than any of the Latin-American art that El Salvador and Guatemala had sent...
Next week the show will move to Guatemala City, later to Tegucigalpa, Honduras, for further handclasps...
With 500 copies of each paper piled up behind him, Yerex lifted his twin-engined Lockheed from New Orleans airport at 3:30 a.m., pushed to Guatemala in five and a half hours. Same afternoon he was in San Jose, 24 hours earlier than if he had taken Pan Am's roundabout route from Brownsville, Tex. After delivering the papers to various Central American politicos, Yerex stayed to hobnob with Central American cronies, try to bolster TACA prestige...