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...Holy Toledo! One of the best TIME covers I've seen. Conrad even makes good play on the brand name of the scales that we see in butcher shops and bus stations from Rocky's New York to Ronnie's California. Truly a picture worth a thousand votes. Let's have more of Conrad as the boys jockey for position on the way to the starting gate...
...Your cover is frightfully delightful. But why did Conrad exclude that political perennial? In other words, where the hell is Stassen? Surely that is not Childe Harolde in the background staring angrily over the right shoulder of Gorgeous George...
...Conrad has pictured Richard Nixon in checkered silks, supposedly symbolizing the dog Checkers. But, as any sports-minded person can see, Nixon's checkered silks represent the checkered flag used for winners...
...Conrad's likenesses are subtly distorted and require a few moments of savoring contemplation to reveal the full flavor. In our cover, Conrad uses color as well as line to make his points: the silks worn by the political jockeys are meaningful. Lyndon B. Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof...
...once famous dog Checkers is recalled in Richard Nixon's checkered silks. As for Ronald Reagan's polka dots, Democrat Conrad says in a frankly partisan spirit that they represent a clown's suit-or, to put it more politely, theatrical attire. George Romney and Nelson Rockefeller are done in "recessive" blue; that is not a political assessment, but only Conrad's way of pushing them back in the perspective of the picture. And the red and white stripes on Percy? Replies the artist, who may possibly have more political savvy than he realizes: "This just...