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Pageants were enormously popular. In Philadelphia Charles Willson Peale whipped up a magnificent triumphal Peace Arch in 1783, groaning with symbols. It was to be illuminated by skyrockets and 1,000 candles, but it caught fire. Undaunted, Peale invented "an ingenious mechanism" for dropping a laurel wreath on the brow of George Washington, who had to put up with that sort of thing wherever he went. The launching of the Constitution was staged "with marine background scenery bordering on the marvelous, with a final climactic picture of Niagara Falls." In Americana and Elutheria Benjamin Franklin stepped out of lightning-forked...
...show's one touch of life-a woman's gnarled, bejeweled hand. The girl model for the hand posed every Sunday for a year. "She had a wonderful leg," quips Ivan of that which does not appear in the picture at all. The model for the funeral wreath had to be renewed about five times in the course of the work because the wax flowers drooped every couple of years...
...snubbed by the Government leaders, and the leftist press was not very kind to an ideologist who had declared: "When we are in power, the head of a prominent Jew will be stuck on every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." After Doktor Rosenberg had laid a swastika wreath on the Unknown Soldier's cenotaph, a British war veteran heaved the wreath into the Thames...
Ivan Albright calls himself a super-realist, says of surrealism: "I don't like tags. Surrealism means 1941-and a New Year is just around the corner." Some pictures, such as the wreath on a mortuary door, which he calls "That Which," take him as long as ten years to finish. The mortuary door last month won a $500 prize at the Institute (TIME, Nov. 3), in 1938 came in third in the Carnegie International's popularity contest. It's an eight-foot picture of a decayed and time-cracked surface, on which detail swarms like ants...
...week when they defeated Eliot; while Dunster copped the touch football crown by defeating the Deacon outfit 6-0. Although there are several games yet to be played, the Funsters are undefeated in their seven League touch games, which gives them enough points to walk off with the Laurel wreath, while the Deacons' undefeated booting record definitely places them at the top of the House heap...