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Tickets are bought, not through a cage-barred wicket, but over a hip-high counter of light natural birch. Washrooms have bright red, non-defaceable metal partitions. The waiting room has walls and ceiling of Flexboard (no plaster to chip and crack), is brightly lighted at night by round, porthole-like fixtures built almost flush with the ceiling. Slightly more expensive to build than old-style stations, Edgewood's (at $18,000) is expected to save money through virtual absence of maintenance costs...
...Vive De Gaulle!" Like a voice in a dream the cry rang up the Quai de la Roncière. Sleepy St. Pierrais tumbled out of their steep-roofed plaster houses: women in shawls and white petticoats, fishermen pulling striped shirts over their tousled heads, hastily tying their crimson sashes. Geese honked. Dogs barked. From windows suddenly fluttered homemade De Gaulle flags...
Today he lives and works quietly in the pink stucco Banyuls house where he was born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect...
Sculptors at first were smug: no one expects a shortage in stone, wood or plaster. But last fortnight they got a jolt: a Government order specifying that after Jan. 1 U.S. foundries could cast no more sculpture in bronze...
This oddity is not the only attraction for Medical students within the Museum. Among other interesting items are the original other inhaler, casts of surgeon's hands, collections of acromegalie skulls. 600 prehistoric Peruvian skulls, and plaster heads of many criminals...