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Four hundred and fifty-five years after Columbus discovered the island, Puerto Rico at last elected its own governor.* Last week's election brought neither surprises nor upsets; somber-eyed Luis Muñoz Marin, leader of the Popular Democratic Party, rolled to victory with 62% of the 629,000 votes cast...
...jibaros (farmers) were coming down from the hills for the Popular Democratic Party's convention. One morning last week, more than 100,000 of them jammed into Sixto Escobar Athletic Park. By the time the last "Viva!" died away, they had nominated 50-year-old Luis Munoz Marin, president of the Insular Senate, as their candidate in the island's first gubernatorial election...
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger...
...music-hall favorite till his retirement before World War II, prepared to participate in his own immortalization, and had plenty of time to prepare. He let it be known that he would go to Hollywood to play himself in his forthcoming cinebiography, a year from next August. === John Marin, 75, top-ranking watercolorist, got the sort of tribute that is closest to an artist's heart. At the WAA sale of State Department paintings that offended Congress (TIME, April 14, 1947), a Marin watercolor fetched $10,000 from St. Louis' City Art Museum...
...American, 18 years old-standing near the Indian street girl. That street girl was the second love in my life. She's more vivid to me now-our contact was more violent. And that lady with the pinwheels, way over on the right, is Lupe Marin, my first wife. Frida Kahlo, my third wife, has one hand on my shoulder. That thing in her other hand is the Chinese symbol for the unity of opposites...