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William J. Dorvillier, 53, editor and publisher of Puerto Rico's San Juan Star, is a Roman Catholic. But last fall, during the Puerto Rican elections, he had angry words for three bishops of the island's Roman Catholic Church. Said Dorvillier in a front-page editorial: "The Catholic bishops who signed the pastoral letter forbidding Catholics from voting for the Popular Democratic Party have transgressed grievously against the people of Puerto Rico, against their country and against the Catholic Church." Last week Dorvillier's uncompromising fight for separation of church and state won him the Pulitzer...
Born in Massachusetts, Bill Dorvillier went to Puerto Rico on his honeymoon and decided to stay. For the next 20 years, he aspired to do just what he is doing now: run a successful English-language daily in San Juan. The Star is his third attempt. During the 1940s, Dorvillier edited the Puerto Rico World Journal, English-language subsidiary of El Mundo, but El Mundo dropped the paper when many of its readers-U.S. servicemen stationed in Puerto Rico-went home after the war. Dorvillier also presided over the World Journal's brief and ill-fated revival...
...clock every weekday morning, a small, wiry man in a khaki shirt and faded blue jeans hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this...
...most critics, Italian-born Rico Lebrun, 60, ranks today not only as the West Coast's most formidable talent, but one of the finest of those painters who work in the tradition of Goya. Syracuse University recently acquired his huge triptych on the Crucifixion; Pomona College has his majestic Genesis mural, completed early this year; the University of California Press has just published a handsome book of his drawings. At first glance, all this might seem to be the work of a bitter and sick imagination; but the man himself is exactly the opposite. "People think...
Titian's Secret. Rico Lebrun came to the U.S. at 24, when the Naples stained-glass factory for which he was working got a contract from a branch of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in Springfield, Ill. Giving up glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun...