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Hefty Louis Cortese, 31, had worked for Hearst and for Stage magazine. Dark-haired Jack Begon, 35, had run a shortlived Cosmopolis (Wash.) weekly, had done make-up on the San Francisco Chronicle. Lean, Groucho-mustached Bill de Meza, 28, had reported for the Plainfield (NJ.) Courier News...
Also included were most of Mexico's many half-knowns: Goitia, Castellanos Tamayo, Meza, Montenegro, Cantu Galván, Charlot, Mérida, and the surrealist Frida Kahlo (Rivera's third wife). By & large they seemed suspiciously un-Mexican and disappointingly dull. Why didn't the "younger generation" of artists compare with Mexico's aging masters...
...Guillermo Meza was one of the youngest and most gifted of the Mexicans shown in Manhattan. His masterful painting of a surf-wearied swimmer got some of the ebb and crash of its title, The Sea. Meza took up painting because he did not have enough money for music lessons. He wanted to be a strolling musician; now he paints twelve hours...
...Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money for mandolin lessons, and who is "undoubtedly going to be the successor of Orozco, Rivera and Siqueiros...
...Gonzalo Escobar, who personally made the capture. A few hours later he was executed by a firing squad in the hamlet of Teocelo, Vera Cruz. With him died his nephew, Lieut. Col. Francisco Gomez Vizcarra. Shortly afterwards, Federal troops also shot General Adalberto Palacios, Colonel Salvador Costanos, Major Francisco Meza Perez. Their bodies were all shipped to Mexico City, where their relatives claimed them. Each showed a bullet hole through the temple...