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Eventually, Schwitters escaped to Scotland on a ship with his son and spent 16 months in British internment camps. The camp officials humored him. They let him cut up the kitchen linoleum to paint on, since there was no canvas. Later he settled in the Lake District, produced an uninterrupted stream of work that nobody much wanted, and died in obscurity in 1948, a few months short of his 61st birthday...
...quite. After Elliott had had a year or so of schooling, Charlie Lowe decided to put him on local TV shows, like the Bonny Maid Linoleum Versatile Varieties. As he was about to go on camera for the first time, "the names of the children were being announced," Mrs. Goldstein remembers. "Charlie Lowe whispered to me: 'Now you don't want him to go on as Goldstein, do you? How about Gold?' 'No,' I said. 'Gould...
...poverty, but they have few comforts and no spare cash. Home is in an old building in the Kingsbridge section of The Bronx, where Stafford, 43, and his wife Geraldyne, 33, grew up. The Staffords live three flights up in a tiny, four-room apartment. Scatter rugs cover the linoleum floors. There are only two closets, so toys and clothes are piled everywhere. The kitchen is jammed with dishes and drying laundry. In the living room, there is a card table -bought with trading stamps-where the family eats...
...undulant linoleum...
...Linoleum. Perhaps the biggest factor working for Lindsay is Procaccino's failure to rally either the Democrats or the independents. The most conservative of five primary candidates, he won the Democratic nomination with only a third of the vote, and has had difficulty expanding that base. Many prominent Democrats are actively supporting Lindsay. In the News poll, Lindsay captured a bigger slice of the Democrats, 44%, than Procaccino, who got 37%. Procaccino's personality also worked against him. The contrast between Lindsay's Ivy League polish and Procaccino's almost deliberate coarseness began to chafe...