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Mexican painting has had its jitterbugs aplenty, but many U. S. gallerygoers have the impression that Mexican painting consists of Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros - who are only the Paul Whitemans and Benny Goodmans of Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: South of the Border | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Monkey Suit. In San Jose, Calif., a man sued his wife for divorce on grounds she took her pet monkey to bed with them. Ruling that a man too supine even to kick his wife's monkey out of bed deserved no divorce, Judge Charles Davison granted the decree to the wife instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Sting. In San Jose, Calif., a scorpion stung a schoolteacher, and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Batista and several fellow sergeants ousted the corrupt officers' clique that controlled the Government and made themselves overlords of the shark-shaped island. Batista became boss. He promoted himself to Commander in Chief of the Army and pinned a colonel's epaulets on his shoulders. To Sergeant Jose Pedraza he gave the national police, and Sergeant Angel Gonzalez got the Navy. When he offered Sergeant Pedraza the rank of major, that worthy replied: "Don't bother. I've already made myself colonel." A compromise rank of lieutenant colonel was finally agreed upon for Sergeants Pedraza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Genteel Revolution | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...week's end Cuba's Secretary of State Jose Manuel Cortina issued an unflustered statement. The resolution was contrary to President Roosevelt's foreign policy, to Pan-Americanism and to the opinion and decision of all Cubans, said he, adding that "the admirable policies of President Roosevelt . . . have profoundly consolidated confidence and union among all the nations of America." Señor Cortina knew, if all Latin Americans did not, that Senator Smathers is a windbag whose opinions influence no other Senator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Good Neighbor Smothers | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

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