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Guests of the Hotel Reforma in Mexico City were Errol Leslie Flynn, of Mulholland Farm, Hollywood, and Edward Joseph Flynn, of Lake Mahopac, N.Y., and The Bronx...
...hours, in desperation when apparatus ran short called out an ancient steam pumper that rumbled through the streets, belching a black column from its smokestack. Mexico's tallest skyscraper, a nearly completed, 17-story office building at the corner of the handsome Paseo de la Reforma and the Avenida del Ejido, shook and cracked as the city rocked. A five-story section of glass and facing stone collapsed, sent rubble crashing down on the sidewalk...
Into the still unopened Hotel Reforma, soon to be one of Mexico City's swankest, burst swart, baggy-breeched Diego de Rivera at the head of a group of 20 gesticulating young men. Before they could commit much of a nuisance, alarmed neighbors summoned police who questioned Rivera and his loudest companions, found that the group was fortified with not one but five revolvers...
Probably the ablest, certainly the best known living fresco painter is paunchy Diego Rivera, twice a member of the Communist Party, once expelled for disobedience. Because the owner of the Hotel Reforma, Alberto J. Pani, onetime Mexico's Secretary of Finance, was a friend, Artist Rivera agreed to decorate his hotel for 4,000 pesos, just enough to pay his expenses...
...President Ortiz Rubio last week contained only two important changes. Ex-Provisional President Fortes Gil retired to his old post as Secretary of the Interior, prime Cabinet post, and handsome General Juan Andreu Almazan was rewarded for his slaughter of 1,000 rebels at the Battle of La Reforma (TIME, April 15) with the post of Secretary of Communications and Public Works...