Word: neveral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great Ideas. Insatiably curious, S. S. McClure was always on the go in the U.S. and Europe, had an invariable explanation for his restlessness: "I never get ideas sitting still." Returning to the office, he always berated the editors for stagnating in his absence, then dumped a suitcaseful of "great ideas" on their desks. McClure published the first magazine articles on X ray, radium, Marconi's wireless, the Wrights' flying machine and twilight sleep; he discovered Willa Gather, helped popularize William Dean Howells and Joel Chandler Harris, introduced Stevenson, Kipling and A. Conan Doyle to their first...
Once S. S. explained the secret of his success: "There never was anyone whom I was afraid to ask to write for me." One popular writer, Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, stood fast for a while: he said he would be neither "lured nor McClured." Eventually McClure...
...True Truth. There has never been much consistency in the surging course of Artist Rivera's life. He was born 62 years ago in the mountain town of Guanajuato, and was involved almost at once in the kind of controversy that has surrounded him ever since. His mother was an ardent Catholic, his father a revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Acting with characteristic dispatch, little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swears that his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his piping diatribes against the Church...
...there is any truth in such a story, it may be what Rivera's friendly enemy and fellow muralist, Communist David Siqueiros, calls la verdad verdadera-the true truth-meaning something poetically, if not factually, true. "What is marvelous with Diego," says Siqueiros, "is that he never tells a 100% lie." Frida agrees: "He is such a liar as are poets or children who have not been turned into idiots by their parents or the school...
...Paris he set up housekeeping with a pretty Russian blonde named Angelina Beloff, learned Russian and talked Marxism with Angelina's expatriate friends. He also enlisted in the cafe cohorts of Pablo Picasso, who was by then knee-deep in cubism. "I have never believed in God," says Rivera today, "but I believe in Picasso." Cubism, he maintains, "was the most important development in art since the Renaissance." He points out that cubist principles of composition underlie his most realistic murals...