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...Janis that Pollock finally went, and so did Gottlieb, Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. Last week Janis was the cause of a good deal of speculation with his big new show of "pop art." Instead of the masters of abstractionism, he has gooey cakes of painted plaster by Claes Oldenburg, blown-up comic strips by Roy Lichtenstein, rearranged billboards by James Rosenquist, portraits of cans of soup by Andy Warhol. Janis has apparently spotted a new bandwagon-but he did not discover...
...Center in Vallejo, Dr. Mead is a specialist in physical medicine and deals mainly with patients whose ability to exercise has been catastrophically cut-elderly stroke victims and teen-agers with broken necks from diving accidents, or children paralyzed by polio. The polio patients used to be immobilized in plaster casts for months, until all hope of restoring strength to atrophied muscles had vanished. No more. Even the weakest muscle must be exercised, Dr. Mead insists...
...debonair Don Quixote of advertising. As executive committee chairman of Cunningham & Walsh (1961 billings: $48.5 million), he publicly lambastes the vulgar sell ("When we load the television screen with arrows running around people's stomachs, we are boring the public") and the oversell ("When we plaster five different commercial messages right after one another at station-break time, we are boring the public"). Harvardman ('19) Cunningham gets away with such blunt talk because admen admire him as one of the great copywriters of all time. Among his notable creations: Chesterfield's "Blow some my way," which came...
...spots are only an appetizer. Next on the program is a ripsnorting public feud between Gibbs and the Piel brothers. Sound trucks, skywriters and posters will plaster New York with the cabalistic exhortation "B. B. B. & H." (for "Bring Back Bert and Harry"). Next month Gibbs will take on the brothers in three radio debates. Predictably raucous, Bert Piel will charge: "That pantywaist Gibbs doesn't even like beer. If you put an olive in it, he might drink...
Facade of Elegance. It seems incredible that it should be so, for at first glance, the exhibition looks like a hopeless hodgepodge. There are polyptychs, triptychs and diptychs. an endless assortment of Madonnas. Pietàs in wood, stone and plaster, drinking horns and jewelry, tapestries and armor, brilliantly illuminated books, stained glass, portraits of princes, busts of prelates, ceremonial swords, hand-painted playing cards, gleaming sets of royal knives and forks...