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...works of Gaston Lachaise, U. S.-naturalized French sculptor (TIME, July 23). Broad-beamed, long-haired, yet extremely high strung, Sculptor Lachaise finds emotional relief in modeling monstrous female figures with breasts like melons, hips like hills. Prize piece in last week's show was a 2,000 Ib. female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement...
Born. To the late Paul F. Donnelly, rich Kansas City dress manufacturer who died last September; and his second wife, Mrs. Virginia George Donnelly, 24; a posthumous, 7 Ib. 15 oz. daughter, by a caesarean section; in Manhattan. The child, to be named Paul Frances, shares a $1,000,000 estate with her mother. Mr. Donnelly's divorced first wife, Nell Quinlan, who bought out his interest in the Donnelly Garment Co. ("Nelly Don" dresses), is now married to onetime Senator James A. Reed...
Newshawks were therefore able to sympathize with the tiny (102 Ib.) actress' dismay as she nervously parried questions with "I t'ink what you t'ink." finally blurted out: "I am thrilled but terrified, so terrified...
...controversy about the nature of Earth's core. Some observers affirm they have recorded shear waves passing through the core, believe therefore that the core is solid. Others are equally sure the core refuses to transmit shear waves, is hence molten-at a pressure of 15,000,000 Ib. per sq. in., a temperature of 50,000 degrees...
...steer's skull midway between the scared eyes the blow falls. Great shackles swing down to lift the limp stunned animal, head down, rump high. The short curved knife bites deep into the bristled neck seeking the throbbing artery. Into great cans oozes the dark red blood, 70 Ib. to the steer. . . . Pigs skewered by the feet to an overhead track circle around the killing room. Stuck pigs upside down do not squeal. A knife flashes...