Word: gustavo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, rubicund Msgr. Gustavo Testa gained credit at Rome for his quiet oiling of troubled Franco-German waters in the Ruhr after World War I. In 1935 he became Apostolic Delegate to Egypt and Arabia. Testa is the first man to bear his new title: Apostolic Delegate to Palestine...
...Communists finally picked 49-year-old Gustavo Machado, longtime political exile and Commie organizer...
Agustín's son Gustavo went off with Villa's army. "I could never look into Villa's eyes," Gustavo recalls. "They were like tiger's eyes." Brother Miguel followed Obregón, who liked to stay up talking until 4 in the morning. "He'd never drink himself, but he'd feed us coffee and cognac, talk about fighting ahead or swap the latest filthy stories." Because the campesino's hero, Emiliano Zapata, refused to let Agustín and other newsmen cover his ragged army, and shot up their press...
Back in Mexico City, Agustín and Gustavo finally cornered Zapata as he and Villa lounged side by side in the Presidential Palace. Villa growled, "The air in here is getting cold with photographers." The Casasolas scrambled outside for a long (and safer) shot at the banquet Villa was giving Zapata, noted that the suspicious Zapata never ate a mouthful...
Seeds for the Future. Gustavo now spends his time editing the History, handling the many orders ($1,400 a month) for pictures from the archives. Sometimes Muralist Diego Rivera comes to study revolutionary faces. Pictures that go into the files today, says Gustavo, show "fewer hangings and battles and more construction projects and dedications. . . . We are coming to years when the fruits of the Mexican Revolution are being gathered, maybe not exactly the same fruits the revolutionists thought they were planting, but fruits that Mexicans should see and remember, for they will furnish the seeds of future harvests...