Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan, Governor Luis Munoz Marin expressed profuse Latin appreciation of the generous offer-but added that the Puerto Ricans do not want independence. Under the present arrangement, Puerto Rico sends its goods tariff-free to the U.S., and exports to the U.S. (without restriction since they are U.S. citizens) hundreds of thousands of its surplus people. Most Puerto Ricans do not want to give all that up for the cold rigors of nationhood...
Died. John Marin, 82, famed watercolor artist, regarded by many critics as America's greatest painter; at his seaside cottage in Addison, Me. A failure as a button salesman and later as an architect, at 28 he turned to art, opened his first big Manhattan exhibition in 1909, when he was 39. Marin scorned" formal training and academic styles ("If you put on the paint right...it will tell its own story"), saw his vivid land and seascapes sell for as much as $10,000 apiece, kept hard at work until shortly before his death...
JULIO C. GAMAS MARIN...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
...time," he says, "that I was conscious that art makes an appeal to the emotions instead of the intellect." Emotions have been Root's guide ever since. In the days when Paris' moderns were the rage, Root went after such promising U.S. painters as George Luks, John Marin, Edward Hopper, and Charles Burchfield, who was still designing wallpaper in 1929 when Root first saw his work...