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...After twelve-year-old Carol Francis won two races at London's St. James Ladies' Swimming Club, Proud Papa Fred Francis gave her a pound note ($2.80). Promptly, Club Secretary Florence Fuller ruled the gift made Carol a pro, last week barred her from the pool, primly wrote home that gifts of clothes and candy might further harm Carol's standing. Cried the father: "It's farcical-I've been giving Carol food and clothes for twelve years!" But after a chat with Regional Swimming Official Harry Gibbons, Rigid-Ruler Florence relented, ruled that Carol...
...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...