Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"—see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead.
When a reporter got to Rivera's house, the garrulous, 61-year-old revolutionary was...
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