Word: fullers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grace, and in a perpetual state of adoration. When anyone picked him up he would jingle faintly as if things were rattling around inside him. Since Golden Boy was made in China in a period when temple priests liked to fill their statuary with symbols, Director Richard E. Fuller and Associate Director Millard Rogers of the Seattle Art Museum grew more and more curious about what was inside. When X rays confirmed that there was more to Golden Boy than met the eye, Dr. Fuller's curiosity became unbearable. He decided to operate...
...last week in the museum's basement, surrounded by museum staffers and Chinese and Japanese scholars, Director Fuller placed the wood boy face down on an improvised operating table and made his incision with a sharp, small-bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold...
Museum Director Fuller decided to place Golden Boy on special exhibit with the hole in his back and his innards laid out for all to see. In time he will be patched together again with glue and adhesive putty, and will be touched up to look just as good...
...CRANDALL, chairman of the board, George A. Fuller Co.: "The outlook for the construction industry is very good. Actual work put in place during the first six months of 1957 is 3% to 4% ahead of last year. This pace should continue for the last six months...
...exhibit was by all odds the hit of the show, and dominated the entire fa11" grounds. Except for the model house and some outdoor turntables on which stood a gleaming selection of U.S. cars (with prices posted), it was housed beneath the gossamer translucence of one of Designer Buckminster Fuller's nylon-covered geodesic domes, a silvery half-grapefruit rising above the fair grounds a full 50 feet. Forced for the first time to take potluck instead of arrogantly demanding the choicest location, the Russians' exhibit stood glumly at the far end of the grounds, and attracted thousands...