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Windy, dark, and wet...
...Humphrey's Wet Peanut...
...printed a picture of Mr. Humphrey in Tifton, Ga., with a huge peanut [Oct. 9]. Mr. Humphrey didn't mention how wet that peanut was, but I'm sure it was the wettest of all peanuts, and I'm afraid Mr. Humphrey got his hands stained handling it. I made the peanut on short notice. As clay takes time to dry and of course to be fired, I consented to do one in plaster. After finishing the peanut, I soon found that it would not stain successfully because of the water content of plaster. I tried...
...sent Lyndon Johnson into transports of delight. After reluctantly escaping from his admirers, Johnson winked at aides, chortled and asked: "Now how was that for a crowd?" "Oh," replied a staffer, "pretty good." For a moment, Lyndon looked as though he had been smacked in the face with a wet mop. Then he realized that he was being joshed, and grinned more broadly than ever...
...Ponce de Leon, 42, shows most dramatically how far the print-makers have gone past the conventional idea of pressing paper to a plane surface. To make his Terminus, he printed seven colors off a metal plate slathered with key chains, pebbles, even a straw place mat. He runs wet paper through his hydraulic press, which is capable of 10,000 Ibs. pressure, gets an elaborate multicolor abstract...