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...telephone Dr. Lavezzi demurred. It was late, he said, and he had to get up early next day to treat an out-of-town patient. Giovanna's sister-in-law told Lavezzi that they would get another doctor and called Dr. Luigi Gardin, obstetrical consultant at Venice's Ospedale al Mare. Gardin agreed to come, told Giovanna's husband Carlo to meet him at a square near his house. Ricci waited at the appointed place for 40 minutes, then telephoned Gardin again. The doctor's excuse: "I don't have the instruments...
Fatal Buck-Passing. Actually, Obstetrician Gardin had no assurance that Tagliapietra would take the case. In fact, Tagliapietra in the meantime had merely ordered a nurse to call still another physician, Feliciano Torres, a fashionable young doctor with a private practice. But Torres, too, pleaded lack of proper instruments. Moreover, he added, the Riccis' house was much too far from...
...winter snow, rounding up the turkey for Thanksgiving, covered bridges, Model T Fords, bonfires. Her picture frames she took from old mirrors in the attic. Once she attempted an allegory: a picture of an angel saving two children from falling over a cliff. She labeled it "The Gardin Angle" (Guardian Angel...
...their eyes on the many fine arts committees which hand out the jobs of making America's monuments. Big assignments for sculpture come to U. S. artists by direct commission, through open competition or through competitions limited by invitation. Last week a handsome plum fell to Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, Manhattan sculptor famed for her medal designs, when her model won in a limited competition for a $100,000 Baltimore bronze of Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson. Still groggy from a sinus operation, Mrs. Fraser was cheered by her success, knew she had a good...
...curators. The producers claim that it sets a new standard of authenticity both in colonial backgrounds and in picturization of the crafts of spinning and weaving. "The Medal Maker" was made especially for the American Numismatic Society and demonstrates the making of medals and coins as done by Laura Gardin Fraser, maker of the official government medals of Lindbergh and Byrd...