Word: plates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight his way past well-wishers and autograph seekers in crowded hotel lobbies. Everywhere he spoke there were large and obviously enchanted crowds: 3,000 at a $25 box supper in Des Moines, 10,000 at a Detroit fund-raising rally, 1,100 at a $100-a-plate dinner in Columbus, where Young Republicans toasted him with a convention-style "demonstration," complete with victory banners such as "We'll do more...
Others who have turned in much help at the plate are Mike Drummey, Phil Bernstein, Dick Shima, Dave Morse, and Bill Rodgers. Led by Martin, these six were all well over .300 this week...
...friend of long standing, has asked me as a personal favor to him to solicit the Oil and Gas Industry in Washington in an effort to help the Secretary dispose of his "very sizable quota of tickets for the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner." Tickets are $100 per plate. Send your check...
Titian's Secret. Rico Lebrun came to the U.S. at 24, when the Naples stained-glass factory for which he was working got a contract from a branch of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. in Springfield, Ill. Giving up glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun...
Avant Gardes--the company issuing the etchings--destroyed the printer's plate after making only 1000 copies in an effort to turn the etchings into "real collectors' items." The students involved in the company estimate that all the cards will be sold by this weekend. Several local bookstores, newsstands, and photographic stores are carrying the prints...