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...Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
Sculptor Noguchi worked for about a year at a full-scale plaster model from which the steel plaque could be cast. The plaster model (17 by 22 ft.) took up his entire studio from floor to roof. Shipped to Boston in nine pieces, Noguchi's model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster...
...went to prison for breathing hard on a glass case in the British Museum and returned, a decrepit old man, to breathe his defiant, dying breath on the same forbidden glass, John Seed did not give up his high resolve. Last fortnight he returned to college, strapped in a plaster cast from waist to shoulders. He spurned the university's offer to end the contest by giving him a clapper...
...tragedy was narrowly averted in Kirkland House last night as two Sophomores attempted to emulate Ann Sheridan's life mask with a home-made concoction of plaster-of-paris...
...original plan had been to sink match-sticks into the plaster so that the mask could be stripped off in neat sections, but Trevaskis himself finally released the volcano-like heat by crushing the mask with his hands...