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...Colgate dinosaur egg was the only one sold. The British Museum, to which the American Museum of Natural History had sent a plaster replica of an egg gratis, refused to pay $100 for an original aged 95 million years. But in the Orient, Chinese, Mongols & Russians decided that Dr. Andrews was getting $60,000 a dozen for the eggs, and a fortune for the big bones. When he returned to Mongolia he found grafters plaguing him at every turn. He generally bullied them out of their demands...
...French public buildings, ministries, town halls, consulates, schools, etc., etc., word went out last week that they were about to receive new Mariannes. Officials prepared to sell or destroy their chipped and grimy plaster busts of the lady who for the past 44 years has represented La République...
...government decided to distribute Mariannes to all the communes of France, held another competition. This time Jean-Antoine Injalbert was the lucky man. Thousands of plaster copies of his Marianne, a broad-browed, sharp-featured young woman in a "liberty" cap, have been sent all over the world. To the government they seemed quite satisfactory until last year when one Jean Mistler was Under-Secretary of Fine Arts in the Paul-Boncour Cabinet...
...against the government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur...
...Shanghai I made a plaster head of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese poet and philosopher, during the Japanese bombardment. Dr. Shih himself was in great danger as he was being sought by the Japanese. When troops began sacking the city I hid the head in the bathtub and my husband and I moved it out in a basket before it was dry. Two days later the hotel was sacked...