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...think of a more delightful way to usher in spring than with your story on John Travolta [April 3]. He is an electrifying, sumptuous boyman, who exudes a magical aura on-screen that could cause volcanic eruptions. In our part of the world, he has caused disco-dance-contest crazes, polyester-chrome-hair crazes, neon Saturday Night Fever T shirts...
...more questions this week. Counsel Robert Lishman leaked the news that ex-Jockey Alan Freed, who himself was spun off the ABC turntables for payola (TIME. Nov. 30), had impugned Clark's purity in closed session. Despite everything, at least one group was willing to stick by its boyman: the senior class of Philadelphia's suburban Upper Darby High School wanted to present Clark with a certificate of honor last week "because he talks to us like we are people." But Clark, talking to Congressmen almost as if they were teenagers, was a little too busy to accept...
What is in a name? Everything, it would appear, when TIME [Nov. 24] refers to the Boyman's Museum, Rotterdam, and other purchasers of Van Meegeren's pictures, as suckers, owing to their acquisitions having proved the work of a contemporary artist, instead of genuine Vermeers. Has their merit wilted thereby? Is the Christ at Emmaus any less beautiful, because the authorship is changed...
...final proof, said the Dutch, the faked Vermeer Christ and the Disciples in Boyman's Museum at Rotterdam shows Christ seated in a chair which was copied from a chair in van Meegeren's studio...
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