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...probably did. The wood was discovered in 1934 during the reconstruction of the Old Library of Emmanuel into an additional dining hall. Workmen on the job were stripping away the south wall when they hit into a massive oak panel, hidden by the centuries and nine inches of plaster and brick...
June Havoc, Broadway musicomedienne (Mexican Hay ride), had her broken leg taken out of a plaster cast, went off to Hollywood to star in the cast of Brewster's Millions. Present at the taking-out party: her sister Gypsy Rose Lee, reported by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson to be expecting a child in February and planning to divorce her husband, Actor Alexander Kirkland...
...down and drew his own version (based on that of Disney Cartoonist Kenneth O'Brien). From Bergen's final sketch, RKO Sculptor Joseph Zokoirch modeled Effie in plaster. The final wooden achievement is a full-fashioned ventrilowitch named for Bergen's senior script writer, Zeno Klinker...
...France, a detailed study of Chartres was made by the late great 19th-Century architectural historian, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, whose Dictionary of French is a classic. Viollet-le-Duc made plaster casts of some of the Cathedral's lyrical sculpture. But the surest source of data are French Government records, if they are intact. The Third Republic maintained bureaus which filed detailed descriptions of every important historic building in the country. There was also for Chartres a state-supported architect in residence, whose office knew every stone of the building...
Joseph Stalin, onetime choirboy and theological student, now an apostate, created the Council for Religious Affairs last month. Last week in a pastel-green-walled suite, still smelling of paint and plaster, thick-lipped, bespectacled Ivan Vassilyvich Poliansky was busy considering and passing on the requests of all Soviet churches except the Russian Orthodox.* At work on the floor below was Georgi Gregorievich Karpov, chief liaison agent between the government and the Orthodox Church...