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...parchment that - for reasons of economy - has been used twice or three times, after erasures. By chemicals or other means, the erased writings can often be restored...
...hurries across Los Angeles' San Vicente Boulevard, enters a grimy old commercial building, and climbs the stairs to a large studio. There, Painter Rico Lebrun finds himself in what looks like a cooled-off hell. The walls are lined with massive, tortured figures drawn on huge pieces of parchment. A decapitated man holds his head in his hands; an adjoining figure is riven from neck to thigh; a third figure turns slowly into a serpent. These, along with similar drawings on display this week at the University of Southern California, are the sketches for a series of paintings Lebrun...
...turn in my preaching parchment if Huxley and his biological associates can make one further advancement. Let them eradicate this thing we theological boys call sin. If so, I'll return to the scientific campus or take up a janitorial job in a biological...
This intelligence comes from Dr. Ray E. Kehoe, associate director of the University of Michigan's Bureau of School Services, who cased Parchment High last month. Dr. Kehoe failed to observe the deficiency of the school library, which needs $15,000 worth of new books. He concentrated on the present 52-ft.-by-311ft, music room, which in his view does not meet N.C.A. standards. The school, said he, needs a soundproof band room, practice rooms, and a room for storing instruments and uniforms...
...Parchment's five-man school board, the band room is politically more important than the elementary classrooms. The voters demand an accredited high school so that graduates can get into college. Last week, growing publicity over the board's indicated decision sent the members scurrying for "no comment" cover. That left School Superintendent Fred Hall to face newsmen. Said he: "I deplore the sudden rise of little Parchment in the educational world. I am deathly afraid of notoriety...