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...department's eight-column story on the life & works of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter-soldier-politician, in the Nov. 10 issue is, to a large extent, the result of a year's acquaintanceship between Artist Siqueiros and John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Because the detail and sound analysis of Stanton's research also showed a warm understanding of Mexican ways, I asked him to tell me about the business of being a correspondent in Mexico as it applied to the Siqueiros story. This is his reply...
Last week the new U.S. Ambassador, Stanton Griffis, a former businessman and captain on the U.S. General Staff during the World War I, decided to try undiplomatic tactics. In an upper room of the Embassy, he installed two short-wave radios, set them at different wavelengths to insure round-the-clock squawking. He was simply testing, he explained, the effect of varying weather conditions. The squatters have admitted that the static is getting on their nerves, especially when two squalling babies provide an infantile obbligato...
...revolutionary aspect of the news TIME has to cover is the way in which Central Americans have long been used to changing their governments. During the last year, the job of reporting this news has fallen mainly to John Stanton, chief of TIME Inc.'s Mexico City bureau. Learning that he had just returned from an extensive trip through Central America, I asked him to amplify his experiences with the postwar revolutionists. This is his reply...
...asks: 'Why do you write such terrible things about me? Why do you do it?' Up on the hill in Managua is General Somoza, who kicks presidents in & out of office, at will. He greets you with a big smile and an abrazo and asks: 'Stanton, what can I do for you?' You talk about the political situation and he laughs at you and says: 'You know I have been good to my foes.' His eyes are dancing. You go away with an invitation to have dinner with him in Philadelphia as soon...
...Manhattan's Polo Grounds, NBC Telecaster Bob Stanton (TIME, May 26) decided to have a hot dog-with mustard. He had barely got it down before his doctor, who had been watching at home with disapproval, called up and scolded Stanton roundly for breaking his diet...