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Diego Rivera is a potbellied, brown-skinned Mexican artist whose murals have gained him fame, controversy, a good living. In his pink & blue studio-houses near Mexico City, he has lately enjoyed the services of a beauteous, raven-tressed Indian model named Nieves (pronounced Nyay'-vezz); the visits of numerous young U. S. women, devotees of art; and notoriety spiced with danger. The danger came from Mexican Stalinists, who, according to ex-Communist Rivera, would like nothing more than to put him out of the way. With the cooperation of Mexican police, they actually did land him in heavy trouble last month, by blaming him for someone else's attempt to murder exiled Leon Trotsky (TIME, June 3).

Last week Diego Rivera fled to the U. S. Disheveled, tieless, in shirt sleeves, he debarked from a plane at San Antonio. "Where is Paulette? Where is she?" he loudly inquired, peering around the airport. He referred to Cinemactress Paulette

Goddard, whose portrait he has been painting. Paulette was right there (she had arrived by automobile from Mexico City with her mother). Actress Goddard and Diego Rivera emplaned together (see cut), flew on to San Francisco, where he had a