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Accompanied by 200 friends and sympathizers, the painters arrived about noon to set up their exhibit in a vacant lot surrounded by bleak new apartment towers. As they began putting canvases on improvised wooden stands, a man who called himself Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov (the Russian equivalent of John Doe) announced that he was leading a group of volunteer workers to turn the site into a "park of culture." At a signal from Ivan, the burly "volunteers" began grabbing paintings, ripping canvas and splintering frames. At another signal, several handy bulldozers and dump trucks roared to the site and began churning...
...Congratulations on your selection of rising leaders and an excellent research job, with one exception. My colleague and ex-partner, Ivan Chermayeff, was credited with having "conceived the symbol and identity program for the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission," when in fact I was responsible for conceiving and designing the Bicentennial symbol and identity program during the time I was with Chermayeff and Geismar Associates...
...certain that you, as well as Ivan, will want to set the record straight...
...Ivan Chermayeff, 42. One of the nation's foremost designers, he has literally left his mark around the world. He created the interiors and landscaping for the U.S. Pavilion at Montreal's Expo 67, and is doing the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library's displays. Seeking to put personality into corporate identity, he has designed trade logos, exhibitions and lobbies for such clients as Pan American World Airways, Mobil Oil, the Chase Manhattan Bank. Born in London, he lived in Canada, graduated from Yale, is now a partner in design firms in New York and Cambridge, Mass...
...welter of statistics and details. Warner, having written a succession of gloomy political stories, was pleased to be discussing the good fortunes of the black middle class. "It's nice to see that society can function despite all the things that have gone wrong," he says. Contributing Editor Ivan Webster was assigned an accompanying story about the black underclass - an experience far less heartening. "It's a grim but necessary part of the larger story," he notes. "It amounts to a cry of alarm - I only hope the cry is heard...