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...Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject degenerate" who would, if given another chance, pledge his art and reputation to the sole service of "Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism," the "only just and true political line...
Groucho's jackpot question: "In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Henry V and Merry Wives of Windsor, there appears a cowardly braggart whose good humor and wit have endeared him to millions the world over . . . I want you to identify this genial fellow." Contestants Muriel Stetson of Rivera, Calif, and Arthur LaVove of Los Angeles, teamed together, thought a moment, then answered "Pistol." Wrong, said Groucho. "The correct answer is Falstaff...
...Thomas Beecham. 79. Partly inspired by stroboscopic photographs, Artist Diego Rivera recently attempted a study in motion, his: 1. Portrait of William O'Dwyer leaving New York...
...count includes Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, Spanish Painter Pablo Picasso (creator of Communism's "peace" dove, which also became a TIME cover subject), Harry Bridges, convicted of perjury for denying that he was ever a Communist (TIME, April 17, 195°) and avowed U.S. Communists Eugene Dennis, Earl Browder...
When a fellow artist predicted that Diego Rivera's underwater murals at Mexico City's new waterworks were bound to wash away (TIME, June 18, 1951), Diego snapped: "Tell him to go to hell." Rivera mixed polystyrene with his pigments and coated the whole thing with transparent rubber. But last week, less than a year after the water began to flow over his murals, Diego had to acknowledge that the submerged parts were indeed beginning to fade. As usual, he had an explanation: "It is because of the bad quality of the water. It contains mud, crude...