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Artist Diego Rivera, lost 125 Ib. (from 310 Ib.) in eight months by substituting thyroid extract for exercise. He also avoided fat-building foods...
...Barnes's walls. said nothing of the few U. S. pictures. Last week he went to visit his son Pierre who runs a Manhattan art gallery. Wagging his white British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look at a picture unless he is interested in painting. For information he can go elsewhere." Then the great Henri Matisse sailed home for Nice and the short mural he had kept for himself...
...ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops would no longer fight for him. Later General Goded changed his mind, was placed on the retired list. Just to be sure, he was exiled last week to the Canary Islands...
Last week Rivera cashed his $14,000 check, went to see his lawyer. He was told he might sue to establish an artist's dubious right under an "implied covenant" to force exhibition of his work, but that he had no legal right to the fresco he had sold and been paid for. He fell back on "a moral question" of the artist's right "to express himself; and the right to receive the judgment of the world, of posterity." Said he: "They have no right, this little group of commercial minded people, to assassinate my work...
...this the Rockefellers said nothing. The RCA Building was on the newspapers' front pages again. They noted that Communistic Rivera who needs walls to work on has worked on the walls of "commercial minded" people exclusively for the past year. Rivera's next commission after the RCA Building was a "Forge and Foundry" mural for General Motors Corp. at its building in Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition (see p. 14). After the Rivera-Rockefeller ruckus, General Motors paused to consider what it had better...