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Proudly in court appeared bandaged Musketeers Ayotte, Brazeau and Tremblay to answer charges of "disorderly conduct, creating a disturbance, and causing damage to property." Proudly behind them on spectators' benches sat scores of students who had escaped arrest but not injury, as their bandages and sticking-plaster showed...
Asked about his rivals, 43-year-old Nuvolari had given out a statement: "I have great respect for several of them but I expect to win." A driver with such courage that he once won a race with his leg in a plaster cast, such endurance that he drove in another the day after a crack-up which doctors had said would keep him in bed for half a year, Nuvolari wears a little silver turtle on a string around his neck to remind him of the fable about the tortoise and the hare. Last week he remembered both...
Sculptor Hoffman had to use all her tact to wean the Field Museum trustees from their original scheme for the Hall of Man. Their idea was that it consist of a series of painted plaster figures, equipped with real hair and glass eyes...
Gestures & Panic. On arriving at the League of Nations' new headquarters which smell strongly of fresh plaster and paint, the British and French delegations, as a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Benito Mussolini, set about trying to pack the Credentials Committee with a view to having it bar His Majesty Haile Selassie who in London had clapped on his derby hat and was winging toward Geneva. As a conciliatory gesture to Dictator Adolf Hitler, some of whose German bombing planes were strafing the Red militia in Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts...
...money ran out they were done away with by any of several traditional means-they were left in cold air alter a very hot bath, were fed heavily after being starved for days, or were nourished on a mixture of milk and gypsum which 'created a plaster coating on their digestive tracts. Lack of inquiry into the causes of infant mortality stimulated what Author Adamic calls a "horrid industry...