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...periods of training in Mr. Feild's career were incorporated in his exhibit. As his first job in America upon return from fighting in World War I and studying art in Paris at the Julian Academy, he was apprenticed to a Boston stainglass maker. Light in one of Mr. Feild's living room windows shines through a round stainglass of St. Francis, a gift of his employer. His sensitivity to light and color were further enhanced at the Disney studios in the late 1930s. Mr. Feild still contends animation is "the total aesthetic experience," the most "difficult art form...
...Mayor Carl Stokes appeared to plead for grass-root political organization aimed at electing black politicians in local races and building a base for a future black presidential candidate. In a speech he described as a "political emancipation proclamation," Stokes expanded on a plan formulated by Georgia State Representative Julian Bond: black voters would withhold support from current presidential candidates and develop their own political organization. Although Stokes rejected the notion of a fourth-party nominee in 1972, he urged local groups to organize in order to wring concessions at the Republican and Democratic conventions. Said Stokes...
...memorandum written by Georgia Legislator Julian Bond seemed to support Muskie's opinion about nominating a black for Vice President. Circulated among black leaders, the memo observed that no Negro had emerged since Martin Luther King to speak for the black community. Rather than "putting all our eggs in one basket," Bond urged blacks to enter as many favorite sons and daughters as possible in the pre-convention primaries. This would draw out a maximum number of black voters, who could elect as many as 1,200 delegates to the Democratic convention. If the balloting is close, blacks will...
Curiouser and curiouser, this book A History of the Modern Age (Doubleday; $7.95), which will be published next week. It is billed as the work of one Julian K. Prescott, a former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs who suffered a nervous breakdown in 1964 and died four years later, leaving his unfinished manuscript to his old friend Professor Neal F. Morrison for publication...
Where did the author get this previously unrecorded conversation? Was it a line overheard by J.F.K.'s chauffeur? A scene invented by Prescott in the throes of madness? A wink to the initiated? Only the late Julian Prescott, alas, could have said for sure...