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Seeds for the Future. Gustavo now spends his time editing the History, handling the many orders ($1,400 a month) for pictures from the archives. Sometimes Muralist Diego Rivera comes to study revolutionary faces. Pictures that go into the files today, says Gustavo, show "fewer hangings and battles and more construction projects and dedications. . . . We are coming to years when the fruits of the Mexican Revolution are being gathered, maybe not exactly the same fruits the revolutionists thought they were planting, but fruits that Mexicans should see and remember, for they will furnish the seeds of future harvests...
...dining room of Mexico City's unfinished Prado Hotel stood Muralist Diego Rivera, critically studying a wall. President Alemán himself had ordered that the city's toniest hotel be completed in time for November's UNESCO conference, and all around Rivera's paunchy figure carpenters and electricians bent noisily to the presidential will. But Rivera's own share of the work, he at last decided, was done. An assistant handed him a round brush wet with yellow paint, and Rivera quickly added a few touches. Then he thrust his soft little hands into...
...pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year-old King Gustaf moved down to the French Riviera for the sun & fun. Arid in Britain...
Dean Cornwall, magazine illustrator turned muralist,* finished a Rockefeller Center shocker of a sort, though not to compare with Diego Rivera's, which once shocked the Rockefellers into scraping it off. Safe-&-sane Cornwell just shocked Vassar's art department, which stayed away from the dedication, explained by wire: "Vassar College cannot indulge in backing anyone so reactionary. . . ." They meant his old-timey...
...According to Humorist Bugs Baer, "A muralist is a fellow who paints outdoor advertising indoors." -Only brother of the late Smith Reynolds, late husband of Singer Libby Holman, shot to death...