Word: pinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pink slip next month anyway...
Diego Rivera is a potbellied, brown-skinned Mexican artist whose murals have gained him fame, controversy, a good living. In his pink & blue studio-houses near Mexico City, he has lately enjoyed the services of a beauteous, raven-tressed Indian model named Nieves (pronounced Nyay'-vezz); the visits of numerous young U. S. women, devotees of art; and notoriety spiced with danger. The danger came from Mexican Stalinists, who, according to ex-Communist Rivera, would like nothing more than to put him out of the way. With the cooperation of Mexican police, they actually did land him in heavy...
...Stettinius is to find raw materials, Mr. Budd to deliver them, Mr. Knudsen to process them. To these three the President added Sidney Hillman, pink-cheeked, blond, curly-haired, 53, chief of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, vice president of C. I.O., a "labor statesman," no bumbler, coldly intellectual. Mr. Hillman will coordinate employment, supervise apprentice training...
...Ford when he saw these real live painters: "This is the damnedest miscasting I ever saw." The cast: blond, amiable, plodding Grant Wood; dark, volatile Thomas Benton; shy, diminutive, big-eared Raphael Soyer, with the faraway, downhearted look of his old men and nudes; tweedy, sophisticated George Biddle; big, pink-faced Ernest Fiene; aristocratic James Chapin; athletic bachelor Georges Schreiber; big, gruff Portraitist Robert Philipp; dynamic Luis Quintanilla, famed Spanish-refugee fresco painter...
Assigned to the Twentieth Century-Fox dressing room lately occupied by Cinema Veteran Shirley Temple, who retired from the screen (TIME, May 20), Actor John Barrymore cast a recognizant eye at pink elephants on the wall, beamed: "I'm delighted." Three days later, unnerved, he moved to the men's dormitory...