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...Action" (for serious fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...
Meantime the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair announced a similar show. Its main attraction: buxom, brunet Mexican Bombshell Diego Rivera...
Gallerygoers saw a complete record of 2,000 years of Mexican art, from the artistic mud pies of the archaic Huaxtecs and Tarascans (500 B.C. to 500 A.D.) (see cut p. 58, top) to the latest paintings of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. From the Huaxtec mudwork (similar to that of today's Pueblo Indians) Mexico's artists graduated to the only finished stone-carving and temple-building of the Mayas and Toltecs. When, in 1521, the Aztec empire was destroyed by the Spanish Blitzkrieg, Mexico's artists turned from feathered serpents to waxworky saints, from...
...years later II Duce was to put an arm around Miller's shoulder, tell him "Maybe I shall be a reporter again, too." Webb Miller made a warm friend of Spain's Primo de Rivera during the Riff campaign, later wangled direct news items from him, toll prepaid. Astride a sandbagged parapet, he flashed the first news of Italy's advance on Ethiopia, got the word to Rome ahead of the official Italian story...
...inauguration of an informal movement based upon a common interest in painting on the part of a small group of students, some of whom have attained more than an adequate degree of proficiency in the handling of their medium. John Cumming, a Junior, studied for a while under Diego Rivera; Weren, a Sophomore, was an illustrator for various school publications while at Andover; and Elliott Richardson is rather well known around the college because of his drawings and desigus for the Lampoon. These men, in addition to Fetcher and Hollister, form the nucleus of what will very likely become...