Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed...
...Marie Harriman Gallery in Manhattan this week went shapes in polished nickel, bronze, marble, wood and plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...
Celebrities thus recorded include: Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream...
...mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks and three mortgages, altogether worth $513,000. Spinster...
...years ago Sculptor Carl Milles, recalling this familiar legend, won a competition with a sketch of a fountain to be placed in front of Stockholm's Concert Hall. Last week Carl Milles had finished the last of the plaster models of his Orpheus group. He and they were on their way to Stockholm where the models will be cast in dark green bronze. The fountain will be completed...