Word: morelia
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...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 Siqueiros, who was commissioned by San Nicolas University in Morelia to paint a mural for a celebration commemorating the 200th anniversary of Hidalgo's birth...
Genaro was a Morelia carpenter just come to the capital when, on Oct. 3, 1920, he bumped his head getting off a streetcar and fell beneath the wheels. He lay in the street while Mexico's Red Cross and White Cross (then hot rivals for every body found in the streets) argued about who should get him. A woman stepped from the crowd and applied a tourniquet; but gangrene set in, and when the doctors were through with Genaro, both legs were gone at the hips. With a hot rage against life in his heart, Genaro got a little...
...serape is hung in the doorway, the room is busy. The women need not be married to the prisoners but must not be syphilitic. Sometimes unmarried convicts take a fancy to girls among the prison visitors, says Sociologist Hayner, "and are able to make the proper arrangements." At Morelia about 13%, and at Guadalajara about 20% of the men enjoy visitas conyugales, which can extend all night if they wish. To women prisoners the privilege is denied. Concludes Hayner...
...many years. An eye opener for U. S. adepts of "selective indignation"* was a photograph circulated last week. It showed a group of Mexican and U. S. prelates, gathered in the patio of the home of Mexico's Archbishop Luis M. Martinez. He and the Archbishop of Morelia wore their soutanes because, presumably, they were staying indoors. The others wore sack suits and neckties...
...their hinges, swung open as they do only when an Archbishop is installed or dies. In walked a lean, dark man with horn-rimmed spectacles, Archbishop-elect Luis Maria Martínez y Rodríguez, raised by Pope Pius XI from bishop coadjutor of the provincial diocese of Morelia to be Catholic primate of Mexico (TIME, April 5). Within the Cathedral were hundreds of clergy, wearing habits and vestments rarely permitted them in public during recent years, and thousands of poor, pious Mexicans, mostly Indians and mestizos...