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...Second-Year Spanish," Assistant Professor Rivera, Tuesdays and Fridays, 6 to 7 P. M., Sever Hall...
Touring Northern California few weeks ago, Diego Rivera passed through the up right little town of Red Bluff, county seat of Tehema County. "This must be where Communism was founded." he chuckled to friends, who repeated it to San Francisco newshawks. Last week, the pun reached Tehema County. Over an indignant front page story the local Corning Observer screamlined RED BLUFF NOT NAMED FOR COMMUNISTS...
...saucer-eyed Diego Rivera brought down Rockefeller wrath on his mop-haired pate by giving a place of honor in his Rockefeller Center mural to Lenin. Last week a similar rumpus flurried up when the figure of Joseph Stalin was discovered in a WPA mural at Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Keeping Stalin company were two little-known Leftist aviators lined up alongside Byrd, Lindbergh, Earhart; a U. S. Navy hangar whose white star insignia had become the red star of the Soviets...
...Madrid, whither they had fled from France (TIME, July 1), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor dined with Miguel Primo de Rivera, provincial chief of the Falangist (Fascist) organization, at the swank Palace Hotel; revealed that on their journey from their Cap d'Antibes villa they had been reduced to eating canned sardines. Confided the Duchess: "They were most delicious...
...Rivera gets excited in discussing his mural. It is meant to demonstrate his theory of Pan-Americanism. "American art," he declares, "has to be the result of a conjunction between the creative power of mechanism of the North and the creative power of the South coming from traditional, deep-rooted Southern Indian forms. It is interesting that the two inventions which most aided the U. S. industrial revolution, the telegraph and steamship, were perfected by two artists, highly important in their day, Morse and Fulton. Thus the artists led off the industrial revolution and now that the revolution has reached...