Word: mariners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the relaxed confidence of an old master, Puerto Rico's Luis Munoz Marin, 58, campaigned this month for a third term as the island's governor-a job first held (in 1509) by Juan Ponce de Leon. Wearing the usual rumpled seersucker, Munoz Marin stopped at roadsides, walked into rural shacks or perched on fences to trade ribald banter and homely philosophy with the jibaros (country folk) who support him. He called meetings of local committees of his Popular Democratic Party, and around tables loaded with bottles of beer and rum chatted with the politicos until long...
This year Munoz Marin is challenged by a man renowned enough to cut down the 65% majority Munoz Marin earned in 1952. Luis Ferre, 51, is a member of Puerto Rico's most important and progressive industrialist family. Master of a fortune earned in cement, glass, shipping, tile-making and trucking, he believes that "industry is not a collection of machines and tools and buildings. It is a social entity that has the responsibility of realizing the happiness of those who work in it." Ferre industries were famed for paying a $1-an-hour minimum wage long before...
...collector had put together in a few years. The viewers saw a handsome survey of 57 paintings and six sculptures covering 180 years of U.S. art, from a serene John Singleton Copley portrait, Mrs. Roger Morris, finished in 1772, to first modern works by Watercolorists Charles Burchfield and John Marin, Painters Charles Sheeler, Edward Hopper and Morris Graves...
Fleischman's serious collecting began after service overseas in World War II as a combat infantryman. On the advice of his wife, a keen art student, he shifted his buying to American works, and now Fleischman has a handsome collection of Winslow Homer and John Marin watercolors. "What started out to be a hobby has become a disease," he admits...
...Depression years he wrote three novels, "and just squeaked by." During World War II he rose to the Navy rank of lieutenant commander, took part in the Normandy invasion. After the war he learned museum work under the G.I. bill, has since organized major traveling shows of Orozco, John Marin, Jack Levine, Hyman Bloom, Charles Sheeler Morris Graves (and written monographs on them...