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Family Man. When the Warrens moved to Sacramento, the Governor's Mansion (once the boyhood home of the late great muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens) was an ugly, grey, 70-year-old frame relic. Part of the roof had toppled off, the rococo porches had rotted, plaster had fallen from the ceilings. One Governor after another had boarded off sections of the 20-room house...
...adequate profit on $23,000,000 worth of business? Bill Jack felt sure it was not. In the next few weeks, he plans to plaster the U.S. with ads in 49 newspapers condemning renegotiation and asking for the law's repeal...
After immobilization in a plaster cast, the paratrooper's progress was steady. He was mentally clear and cheerful...
...45th floor of Manhattan's G.E. building, he had a sunlamp which he turned on whenever he felt a sneeze coming on; a framed copy of Edgar A. Guest's It Couldn't Be Done ("and he did it"); a television set. He took a plaster bust of Lincoln with him to his Washington office...
...patient at once; 2) need for immediate surgery to relieve pressure on the brain; 3) no possibility of reaching a base hospital in 72 hours. For such cases he recommends "an operation of expedience"-a cleanup after which the wound is left wide-open, protected only by a plaster-of-paris bandage. A diagram of the wound may be drawn on the bandage to guide the base-hospital surgeon who completes the operation...