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Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark wore a court plaster on his forehead. Returning from a fox hunt, he had driven his car into a truck...
...carpenters, plumbers, and masons turning the musty old caverns into modernistic, glass bricked offices and halls. Where once NROTC students disassembled artillery pieces and fired on the small rifle range, office, shops, conference rooms and an animal room for white rats, are being marked off with cement blocks and plaster. The old kitchen, which fed over a thousand college men a day, from 1874 to the late Twenties, when the now gloomy home of final examinations was the College Commons, is now turning into psychology library, an undergraduate laboratory and a lecture room seating 100 students...
...destroyed or stolen some $2,000,000,000 worth of art, but most of the movable stuff eventually turned up in cellars and salt mines and in the private collections of top Nazis. One first-rank painting had been destroyed by bombing: Mantegna's frescoes painted on plaster in the Eremi-tani church at Padua...
Should someone have borrowed the maps to cover patches of bare plaster in his or her room, Poole will be glad to suggest a less-strategic wallpaper. The Government Department, which is not ready to start a College-wide investigation, has the idea that some envious professor with an eye to his own requirements might have walked off with the two maps...
...scornful maiden to Sidney Trefusis, the hero. " 'On the contrary,' " he says. " 'I proposed, and she accepted. That is why I have to hide.' " Trefusis is a wealthy Socialist who disguises himself as a workman, lives in a gaudy ancestral mansion full of trapezes, plaster statues and carpenter's tools. He serves as a mouthpiece for Author Shaw, then a poverty-stricken young Socialist who wandered around London, a picture of "indescribable seediness," with a sharp eye cocked toward the future and the generation's best brains in his head...