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Even after the sculptor is selected and his final design approved, Bishop Noll will have to solve at least one more problem before he can see his statue completed: where to find enough bronze to cast it. But the Bishop is somewhat comforted by the thought that the plaster figure will not reach the casting stage until...
...hundreds -of -years -old. many-roomed, thick, crenelated-walled home and on the large, lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army's batman system are now considering adopting it, since it is inefficient that an officer should spend time carting himself hot water for washing. They are discovering that the antiquated, inadequate...
...iron bedstead, the washbasin, the W.C., the barred window." Next, invariably, the prisoner tries "to pull himself up by the iron bars of the window and look out. He fails . . . but decides to . . . master the art of pulling himself up by his hands." He dusts the wall-plaster off his suit. He "pulls a face, being determined to prove that he is full of courage and confidence." Suddenly he notices, at the spyhole of his cell door, an eye. It is an eye without a man attached to it, and for a few moments the prisoner's heart stops...
...Standard treatment for wounds in World War II is to trim off all dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a minimum, allows soldiers to be moved with no ill effects. Only drawback: after a week or so the wounds develop a foul stench. Last week Dr. Allan Dinsmore Wallis and Researcher Margaret J. Dilworth of Philadelphia told how they prevented the smell by simply placing lactose (milk sugar) solution...
...Harbor, Jimmy Doolittle, then a major, told friends at Los Angeles Municipal Airport: "I'm going to get in this thing with both feet. I'm going to Tokyo with a load of bombs." Doolittle, who once demonstrated a commercial plane with his two broken ankles in plaster casts, is no braggart. Now, having made good, he told Washington newsmen about his deed of derring-doolittle in formal Army lingo...