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Because the Tilletts were fine craftsmen their textile designs became fashion's rage in Mexico. In no time at all they were in the chips. Both got married; Leslie to a girl from New York, Jim to lush, dark Nieves, model for some of Diego Rivera's best nudes...
Diego Maria Conception Juan Nepo-muceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 58, better known as Painter Diego Rivera, glorified revolution in his murals. Now he turns out rousing nudes for night-club walls, and full-length appreciations of Mexican society beauties. Through Excelsior's columnist Tibon, Rivera recently revealed an earlier devotion to women which was even more consuming...
...youth in Paris, claimed Rivera, who loves a tall tale and knows how to tell one, he ate women. His motive was scientific: to prove that the human species thrives best on the flesh of its own kind. Male meat was good. (Rivera's present ambition, he said, is to taste a rump steak from Hermann Goring.) But female meat was better. Women's brains, said Rivera, should not be derided. Pickled, they are delicious. And, there was nothing more toothsome than a breaded chop cut from a charming young woman...
Nelson Rockefeller, Mr. Stettinius' No. 1 assistant on Latin American affairs, showed his growing know-how, his flair for Latin amenities. At one session Delegate Rockefeller even chatted happily with Mexican Artist Diego Rivera, whose proletarian murals were torn out of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center by Nelson's father twelve years ago. Artist Rivera, now planning a mural based on the conference, spent several hours sketching Ed Stettinius...
...devout, home-loving man, the father of 13 children, Velasco taught for years at the National Academy in Mexico City, encouraged such promising pupils as Diego Rivera. He visited the World's Fairs in Chicago; and Philadelphia, detested the hubbub of North American cities...