Artist Diego Rivera, the persistent but bumbling Communist who was recently readmitted to the party after 26 years in the outer lightness (TIME, Oct. 11), last week sent his international masters a hand-painted valentine for Christmas.
Rivera, who too often zigged when the party zagged, was so pleased with his pardon that he worked on a huge (8 ft. by 16 ft.) canvas, depictingaccording to the Gospel of St. Marxlast year's liberation of neighboring Guatemala by General Carlos Castillo Armas (see cut).
The picture, one of the most fanciful and macabre of all of...
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