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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...
...made the sacred objects -and called them santos-never owed allegiance to the U.S. They were the hard handful of caballeros, Navaho slaves, and converted Pueblo Indians (including the fanatical sect of Indian flagellants known as Penitentes) who lived along the headwaters of the Rio Grande in New Mexico. For them, civilization and the cathedral which symbolized it lay in Mexico City, over 1,000 miles to the southeast. When their imported plaster statues crumbled and the oil paintings in their adobe chapels faded away, they created their own rowel-sharp art. It was one of history's best...
...sprawling Casa del Pueblo, Apra headquarters in Lima, baggy, beaming Apra Chief Victor Raul Haya de la Torre faced his weekly "leaders' class." This time the men on the hard benches in the whitewashed, barnlike hall got no lesson on public speaking or Peruvian finance...
...swap of 148 U.S. and British schoolteachers (TIME, Dec. 23) was not all a warm handshake across the sea. Pueblo, Colo, sent a teacher to London, got in exchange a pert, plain-spoken London schoolmarm named Miss Alice Elliott. When the Pueblo Lions Club asked for her honest impressions of U.S. schooling, Teacher Elliott startled the local Lions with a little roaring of her own. Excerpts...