Word: plasterers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Visitors at the Manhattan show were especially impressed with a bulgy plaster elephant done by 52-year-old Clara Crampton, who, blind from birth, had never seen one. Other Manhattan blind sculptors had made statues of an armchair, a cat, a fisherman, a violinist. One had even managed a mother and child. The Lighthouse had expected to put price tags on the works and raise a little extra cash for the artists by selling them. But the blind sculptors flatly objected. Not one was willing to part with her sculpture, at any price...
...laboratory in Peiping Union Medical College to organize the Chinese Red Cross Medical Relief Corps (to train doctors, nurses and orderlies). Driven from one town to another by the Japanese invasion, the medical workers finally settled in the hills of Kweiyang, Kweichow, in thatched huts of log and plaster. Kweiyang, more than a thousand miles southwest of Peking, is now the medical centre of Free China: there are the refugee remains of famed National Hsiangya Medical College, formerly known as Yale-in-China...
...design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went on sale in Manhattan and Chicago, was snapped up by the hundreds at 50? each by citizens with breakage in their hearts. The object, named "Wackaroo," is a small (4½ inches high), idol-like, plaster figure, in red, black, white, blue or yellow, designed to fit the angry human hand. Directions for using: "When you are mad or feel like busting things, be sure to grab him quick and smash him - SMACK! - to bits against the wall and then, relax!" The wackaroo smashes to very satisfactory...
...consensus is that those who were there didn't know it either. The evidence he adduces is that on September 8 water mains were "smashed right and left, all over town." "The streets were full of rubble, blown up from direct hits, filled with glass and brick and furniture, plaster, piping. . . . Whole telephone exchanges were out all over town. . . . No traffic--neither fire engines nor ambulances--can get through...
...were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts and a navel, modeled with necrophilic realism and euphemistically labeled The Span of Life, by Cleveland-born sculptor Hugo Robus. Prices ran from...