Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mexican journalism was shaken by a minor drama. The leading characters: Jose Pages Llegro. talented founder and editor of Mexico's leading weekly Hoy; Beatriz Aleman de Giron. only daughter of ex-President Aleman: and a remarkable Parisian nightclub dancer...
...long ago. Beatriz and her husband. Lawyer Carlos Giron. were relaxing in a Paris nightclub when an enterprising photographer caught them gazing at one of the performers (see cut). While papa Aleman was off touring the Iron Curtain countries (see below), the picture reached Editor Pages. Unlike most Mexican editors, Pages is less interested in pleasing bigwigs than in printing what he considers interesting copy. He gave the picture from Paris a full-page spread. As soon as the magazine hit the newsstands, a storm broke over Editor Pages' head...
...objection was not so much that he had printed a picture of a girl with no clothes on, but that the picture included the convent-educated daughter of Miguel Aleman, who still has a lot of influential friends in Mexico. For years, Mexican publications had hardly printed anything but carefully posed shots of the Aleman family, and ignored the President's lively interest in a succession of actresses and other beauties. Hoy's publisher rapped Editor Pages sharply over the knuckles, told him not to be naughty again. Pages promptly resigned. Six other staff members also quit, including...
...dashing former President was not quite ready to settle down. Last month, abandoning his sumptuous quarters in Paris, he took off on a grand tour behind the Iron Curtain. The Mexican embassy called it a nonpolitical, fact-finding trip. In company with a Mexican friend, he flew to Vienna, Prague and on to Warsaw. There he met assorted Polish bigwigs and took in a Communist exhibition, "This Is America," featuring a display of the toy bazookas, flamethrowers and junior space suits which war-crazed, blood-thirsty American parents buy their kids. At week's end, the former President flew...
...most familiar faces in Mexico is that of a priest with the resounding name. Miguel Gregorio Antonio Ignacio Hidalgo y Costilla. The father of Mexican independence, Hidalgo was shot by a firing squad in 1811 after leading a revolt against Spain, and since then every artist worth his salt has honored him with a portrait. Diego Rivera has shown Hidalgo's brooding visage in half a dozen murals; Jose Clemente Orozco depicted him with a flaming torch of liberty and counted the painting among his greatest works. The last of the big three to tackle Hidalgo is David Alfaro...