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internationally known, both as a teacher and educator. He was named Doctor Victor Lowenfield.

...Lowenfield, I think it is. Vicktor is spelled with a "K."

...On the project I first learned by being assistant to a mural painter for one mural, then I was given a commission to do one the public library of one of the Chicago branches of the public library.

...No, after the Rosenwald. You see I had two Rosenwald scholarships consecutively. And then I was drafted into the Army in 1944.

...I spent about a year in the Army, camouflage and all that. I was stationed in...in Camp Ellis I did my basic training, and...Illinois...and then I went to Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, and as a result of fighting the floods in Missouri...the Mississippi and Ohio flooded...I developed pleurisy and was sent to the hospital. In draining the fluid off my chest, they found tubercular condition for which I was given a medical discharge from the Army and sent to a V.A. hospital where I spent three years. The first time. And later I had to spend ___ years in the hospital.

...Well, I painted signs for quite awhile with camouflage. Mostly on cans of edibles and nonedibles. And I also had the opportunity of painting the mess hall once.

...Inside. And then finally they gave me a mural to do, but 

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