Word: pueblo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three years as president, Philip Wernette increased enrollments from 924 to 4,491 students, brought more top scholars to the pueblo-style campus than any president before him. He streamlined the administration ("Without a system, you're playing by ear"), opened a new law school and a new school of pharmacy, but to the university's politics-ridden Board of Regents he had also committed a multitude of political sins. He had once suspended three students in connection with a fraternity house fire. One of the students was the son of the state highway commissioner; the regents reinstated...
...secret, said Bill Mirise, was "a desire on both sides to get along. This plan would have worked in Chicago and saved a lot of trouble." Last week, it was working well enough in Denver to be copied in Pueblo, Colo, and Bakersfield, Calif...
...painting, were mostly bright, flat watercolors of tribal life and lore, like the prizewinning Dakota Duck Hunt by a Dakota Sioux named Oscar Howe. Jemez Indian José Rey Toledo entered a thoroughly detailed illustration of the sacred Zuñi Shalako dance, but Ma-Pe-Wi, a Zia Pueblo, forbidden by his tribe to paint ceremonials, contented himself with a cocktail-bar rendering of a buffalo hunt...
From Rome to Home. During World War I Sterne returned to the U.S., married the much-marrying Mabel Dodge and took her to Taos, New Mexico. Mabel divorced Sterne to marry Pueblo Indian Tony Luhan (TIME, May 5). To Mabel, Sterne "seemed old and spent and tragic, while Tony was whole and young in the cells of his body." Sterne was not too spent to get married a second time, to Vera Segal, a honey-haired follower of Dancer Isadora Duncan...
Mabel Dodge Luhan, veteran salon-keeper and genius-collector, strangely silent after years of holding nothing back in volume after volume of Intimate Memories, was merely busy writing about her neighbors again. Out next fortnight: Taos and Its Artists. Four-times-married Mrs. Luhan, 68, still married to Pueblo Indian Tony after 24 years, talked to a reporter about domesticity and the Gadget Age. Marriage? "I have not analyzed it much for the last 30 years, but it is wonderful. It is a pleasure." Modern times? "If more machinery would break down, sort of gradually, we would all be better...