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...gentleman with a long white beard and brown dressing gown, dropping a festoon of red paper on a plaster foot and a jumble of wire, was stopping the sidewalk traffic on Philadelphia's busy Chestnut Street last week. He was in a window of Blum's department store, and across the street in Wanamaker's windows were some equally strange displays. Philadelphia's radio station KYW broadcast two haywire programs called "Love on Wheels" and "Love is a Dream," and Philadelphia's newspapers were filled with angry letters-to-the-editor. The answer was that...
...nowhere better epitomized than in the brand new united front the roads got together and set up in 1934-the Association of American Railroads which was evolved from the old American Railway Association and the Association of Railway Executives, and which is currently spending a million dollars to plaster the nation with such new railway slogans as: ALL ABOARD! WE'RE GOING PLACES! And in choosing a man to head A.A.R. and "speak and act for the entire industry in matters of common concern," the Association's 150 member roads, picked John Jeremiah Pelley...
...works of art is in the hands of the Communist Fifth Regiment. Its work is not limited to protecting known works in churches, museums and public buildings. Daily the homes of aristocrats and other Rebel sympathizers are raided, the zealous comrades proudly hustling cartloads of worthless chromos, plaster statuettes and other knick-knacks back to the Junta. ¶ Though the Prado has been bombed by insurgent planes, all of its treasures have been saved. They were moved first to the basement, then to the vaults of the Bank of Spain, finally to Valencia. One of the last pictures to leave...
...decide which knife had cut through a copper screen, the F.B.I. placed filings from the different knives and from the screen in a burner and compared the spectra they gave off. It has plastic material for impressions of footprints and tire treads so nice that a plaster cast of a hand can be made to give accurate and serviceable fingerprints...
...develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract national attention were done for Manhattan's New School for Social Research. He paints on panels of prepared gesso (a wash of thin plaster) in tempera, mixing his dry hand-ground pigments with the yolks of eggs...