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...think TIME needs some self-analysis. It is obvious that the people mold newspaper opinion, but who molds TIME'S opinions is beyond my imagination...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
Meanwhile, a new shellac which was colorless, waxless and impervious to moisture had been developed in Britain. Deciding that they had little to lose, Italian restorers injected quantities of the British shellac into the rotting wall. Within a year the mold had entirely dried up, and the painting remained...
...Meta-Mold Aluminum Co. of Cedarburg, Wis. is a corporation with an artistic soul. Its board chairman, Otto Spaeth, 57, is not only a shrewd and successful businessman but also a noted art patron and collector. In 1952, when Meta-Mold decided to build a new administration building, Sculptor Alexander Calder was called in to help design the lobby for a mobile that Calder named the "Otto-mobile" after Board Chairman Spaeth. Last summer Meta-Mold tried another experiment. It put on a show called "Art for Everyone-a purchase exhibition," in which 50 rented paintings and sculptures were offered...
...year-old electrical worker who bought a dramatic canvas called Death of Agamemnon, by Kenneth Evett, for $450 ($85 down, $20 monthly). Fearing that he would be kidded by his fellow workers for"spending so much on art when I could buy a car or something," he asked Meta-Mold to keep his identity secret, hold on to the painting until he could find a place to hang...