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...this was brought on by the fact that Professor Mathiessen is lecturing today on Benjamin Franklin. Franklin may have had feet of plaster, but it was the plaster of Paris. A man once wrote a book about Franklin and called him "The First Civilized American." There are some who will sneer cynically and say that, granting this was true, he was also the last...
...putting last touches to what remains of Ador Tipp Topp, Great Dane. When he reached the museum, Champion Ador Tipp Topp was treated as his predecessors were and his followers will be. He was carefully measured and sketched. Then Mr. Morrill smeared his head with vaseline to get a plaster cast. Next he was skinned. While a tanner prepared the skin, the museum's osteologists cleaned and set up his skeleton. Meanwhile, Taxidermist Morrill made a burlap & papier mache model of Ador Tipp Topp's body. On this dummy the taxidermist glued the tanned skin, sewed up seams, inserted made...
Scientific Exhibits were unusually informative. Putting them up cost the A M. A. $50,000. Notable were the fresh pathological exhibit which looked and smelled like a tidy butcher shop; the exhibit on fractures with demonstrations of their proper setting and immobilizing with plaster of paris bandages or splints; the exhibit on varicose veins with local patients getting their swollen veins plugged by a solution of glucose and salt. A couple of pet Belgian hares lay comfortably tied in cradles so that an ear of each could be held under a microscope. In the lightly clamped ear was a tiny...
...days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed for aid. Not immune to the deluge was E. I. duPont deNemours & Co., maker of cellophane. So many people wrote for a description of cellophane that duPont had to print a special booklet...
Herbert George Wells, who has ideas on almost every conceivable subject, expressed himself on the future of architecture last week. After walking with the officials of the Royal Institute of British Architects around an exhibition hall full of paper projects and little plaster models. he addressed the R. I. B. A.'s at dinner...