From "The Memoirs, Chapter Three" -

            Our friend, the artist Billy King, was always coming up with new and crazy ideas.  So when we got the agreement with the University of Washington to do our "Radical Theater Week," he said, Guys, I got just the thing.

            Billy had married Olga, a Russian dark-eyed beauty, and she was about to have a baby!  He had been working on an art project, naturally, to commemorate the birth of this, their first child.  He wanted to cover over completely this old car he had with plaster and let it sit for a period of “pregnancy” and then, with sculptor’s smock, mallet and chisel, give “Birth to a Chevy.”  We all thought it was the perfect event to be the centerpiece of our radical theater week!

            As we marched around the Chevy with our marching kazoo band, Billy would climb on the car and dump plaster all over it.

            Well, our “Radical Theater Week” was a big success.  Billy King’s art event, the kick-off for the week was well covered in the local papers.

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