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...Lawrence describing a tactic with which Johnson forces hoped to stop the Kennedy bandwagon psychology at the convention by pushing through a new rule that would prevent delegations from changing their vote after the initial roll call of states. The story was obviously made up out of whole cloth, as the Times found out next day when they had Lyndon Johnson to lunch. Said Johnson, as later reported in the Times: "Although I spent a good deal of the day with New York Times reporters, the first I knew about it was when I read it in the papers...
Elmer Gantry (United Artists) arrived accompanied by cannonades of publicity indicating that this version of Sinclair Lewis' 1927 novel about tent-show Bible belt religion is under concentrated attack from any number of men of the cloth...
...authorities know little of the Madonnas' origin. They cannot be sure whether the pieces are tapestries, embroideries, or richly textured paintings on cloth; the few visitors who have taken pictures have not been allowed to examine the works in detail. French Archaeologist Jean Doresse, who has been to Aksum, claims that the Madonnas are watercolors painted on canvas by native artists in the tradition established during the flourishing period of the Portuguese influence in the 16th century. Because of the way that the watercolors sink into the cloth, the paintings have the texture of tapestry. Other authorities, however, claim...
...artist's special world. Irving Kriesberg's Lovers XI 1957 is a double frame of moving panels that the viewer can change and thereby create "paintings" of his own. To make Grand-maw's Boy, Allan Kaprow, 32, produced a collage of worn pieces of cloth that were glued next to the fading photograph of a boy. The old cloth and the dated colors that a grandmother might well have picked for a slipcover or dress evoke the proper mood, even though they may puzzle the mind...
Purchased from Manhattan dealers, the uncut bolts of flags, generally the small, nonceremonial kind, are retailing for about 20? a yard. Port-au-Prince cloth merchants alone have already sold the equivalent of more than 1,000,000 Old Glories. Dealer Pierre Assad, who bought the flag material from Manhattan's Philip Rothman at 12? a yard, also has bolts and bolts of Hungarian and Polish cloth, but says the U.S. flag "is beating the hell out of the Communist material...