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From our standpoint, one of the most interesting things about the average TIME-reading woman is the fact that she has been reading TIME from six to ten years or more...
Many Names. Vidali was born near Trieste, about 50 years ago. After Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
Grandma Moses was getting ready for her 88th birthday and for her tenth anniversary as a professional artist. In those ten years she had painted some 1,300 pictures, which now sell for as much as $3,000 apiece. "Let's see," she said last week, "I can start a batch of five on a Monday and have them finished off on a Saturday. It's according to how I feel, and my callers...
Grandma Moses has other distractions: eleven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren. "When I had my children and grandchildren," she remembers, "I was about as busy as they were. I never had much good of them. I have more time now for my great-grandchildren." But with it all she keeps sending her pictures to Manhattan galleries: "If they wait long enough I get up a big batch of 20 or so, but they're apt to phone before then and ask what I've got done...
...cocksure about Citation's chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet...