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...efforts, the library was overcrowded again by 1895. A member of the Corporation came to the rescue and offered to build a new reading room, but died before contributing the cash. Finally, drawing from its unrestricted funds, Harvard remodeled again. Tearing down Gore's clustered columns, and a vaulted plaster ceiling, workmen made the reading room into an example of "uncompromising bareness and Spartan simplicity of furnishing...
...churches and chapels of the sleepy Italian town (pop. 35,000) are lit by windowpanes of translucent alabaster and by the glitter and blaze of great mosaics such as the triumphant Christ opposite. Ravenna's mosaics, made of innumerable bits of glass, gold and marble chips stuck in plaster, have neither the drama of Gothic church art nor the human warmth of the Renaissance masters. Yet they are equally great, and gayer than either. Their gaiety expresses the exuberant youth of the Christian church, shows that the Dark Ages knew glory...
Liquid Tile. A liquid plastic that dries into a smooth, hard, waterproof, tile-like surface was put on sale by Ev-R Shield Products, Inc. of Joppa, Md. "Glascote," painted by brush, swab or roller onto porous materials like plaster, plaster wallboard, seasoned wood, concrete or pressed wood, develops a poreless finish that, says the manufacturer, is invulnerable to all known solvents. Price...
...bearing a startling resemblance to Statler lobbies. It was almost a relief, in the second part of. the program, to visit the 4½-room Manhattan apartment of Red Buttons, who did a serviceable imitation of Hilton by patting his wall and confiding that it was made of "solid plaster...
...rickety floor above the Patisserie Gabrielle, in a renovated building at 52 Boylston Street, the International Commission of the U.S. National Student Association has its offices. Mimeograph machines, stacks of information bulletins ready for mailing, and shabby gray walls with travel posters covering cracks in the plaster all contribute to the cluttered but "worked-in" appearance of the five-room flat. Yet in the middle of this apparent disorder there are three carefully organized files on student movements from California to Chile. These files indicate the ambitious task of the Commission: to help bring order to the chaotic state...