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...Shahn, formerly Diego Rivera's assistant, will present the "true story which has never been told before" about the Rockefeller Center mural controversy at 4:30 p.m. today in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the English A Department...
...artistic freedom, is one of the discussion topics in English A's new reading book. Fogg Museum first decided to supplement the English department's work with an exhibit of Rivera' work. The Museum secured and put on exhibition for the first time the actual sketch of the mural submitted by Diego Rivera to Mrs. Rockefeller. It also includes one of the few photographs in existence of the actual mural before it was destroyed...
...exhibit points up the key part of the controversy. The original drawing contains no picture of Lenin but merely an abstract picture of a leader of people. In the completed mural, this abstract face is clearly that of Lenin. Rockefeller's representatives said that this face made the mural unacceptable; Rivera said it was a basic part of the mural and was representative of its whole tone...
...athletic association will have a definite decision at noon today on the projected rescheduling of the Fordham game. Meanwhile the association said that a freshman soccer game with Hopkins Grammar School and all intra-mural touch football and soccer contests will go on as scheduled, because Yale believes the contact there involved is "less direct" than in tackle football...
Antimacassars & Battleships. In the center of the exhibition, a specially commissioned mural by New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg put the modern designer's dilemma into squiggly perspective. In one panel, Artist Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg...