Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year a CRIMSON editorial expressed the popular dissatisfaction with the acoustics of the Memorial Church and pointed out the necessary improvements, of which only a bare minimum has been carried out. Beside the insoluble difficulty of the architecture itself, the original problem was twofold; heavy carpets and rough plaster finish both absorbed sound, prevented resonance, and generally marred the performances of a capable choir. Some of the carpet has now been taken up, but conditions remain so bad that cushionless pews must be resorted to for the Sunday service, and still it is impossible for the choir to realize...
...mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin to fresco the walls of the new Oxford Union, they went to work with a will on the damp plaster walls, filled them with a profusion of Arthurian legends which peeled and faded within a year...
Best known Collier company is Barren G. Collier, Inc. which he founded in Memphis at the age of 17. He was then in charge of the city's street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads...
...lobby. Tickets were issued to watch him do his daily stint. Art students, businessmen and Communists bought tickets as Rivera slowly spread paint down over the wall in a characteristic composition made up of huge, chunky units. Rockefeller Center workmen came free. Painting directly on wet plaster as in all true fresco, Rivera put on the wall the essentials of his submitted and approved sketches. Nelson Rockefeller came too to watch, told Rivera he liked the fresco. On May Day Rivera came to the head of the Leader, made it the head of Lenin...
Three hundred eager citizens went early last week to Manhattan's Federal Building and scurried to find seats in a courtroom on the third floor, a courtroom with faded yellow walls, with cracks and patches and the dingy paint and plaster off its ceiling. In this grim auditorium with miserable acoustics, they settled down to see a show. As prolog they enjoyed 20 minutes of minor prohibition and narcotic cases. Then court bailiffs cleared the auditorium...