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...David Lynn and a special crew of workmen equipped with pulleys, rollers and winches clambered up and down the Capitol's stairways and through its second-story windows like a swarm of hungry ants tugging at a dead grasshopper. First they removed Francis Bicknell Carpenter's modest mural, First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation, size 9 by 14, from its 63-year-old place above the east Grand Stairway just off the Capitol's lower chamber. Then to the wall they hoisted a new historical whopper: Howard Chandler Christy's Signing of the United States Constitution...
...Charles Coiner, had rounded up 24 of the top-drawer U.S. postermen, had already finished two nifty jobs for OPM. Adviser Coiner (who designed NRA's Blue Eagle) did the first one; the other was by Jean Carlu, famed one-armed French posterman, now in the U.S., whose mural blandishments on behalf of French railways were once widely known and chuckled at in France...
...judge who ousted him, Roman Catholic John E. McGeehan, "had last distinguished himself by trying to have a portrait of Martin Luther removed from a courthouse mural...
Cheyenne Indians, in complete tribal regalia, picketed the U.S. post office at Watonga, Okla. Inside was a mural by Edith Mahier of the University of Oklahoma, depicting their ancestors under the reign of Chief Roman Nose. Explained 71-year-old Chief Red Bird: "Picture not like Roman Nose. Breech clout too short, look like Navajo. Roman Nose's baby look like stumpy pig. No good. It stinks...
...HABIT OF EMPIRE-Paul Morgan-Harper ($2). An intense mural of hardship, Indian-fighting and Catholic-imperial psychology in colonial New Mexico before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. A little stiff, but exciting and superbly written, its spare, leisured 114 pages should embarrass most space-wasting historical novelists...