Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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June Havoc, Broadway musicomedienne (Mexican Hay ride), had her broken leg taken out of a plaster cast, went off to Hollywood to star in the cast of Brewster's Millions. Present at the taking-out party: her sister Gypsy Rose Lee, reported by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson to be expecting a child in February and planning to divorce her husband, Actor Alexander Kirkland...
...down and drew his own version (based on that of Disney Cartoonist Kenneth O'Brien). From Bergen's final sketch, RKO Sculptor Joseph Zokoirch modeled Effie in plaster. The final wooden achievement is a full-fashioned ventrilowitch named for Bergen's senior script writer, Zeno Klinker...
...other side of the picture, the parish church had been unroofed, the steeple had been shot full of holes. Stations of the Cross were hanging loosely from the stone walls, and the pews and the altar itself were coated with plaster. The adjoining vicarage had been burned out. The altar flowers were wilting in their vases. The church doors were blown in, but no one was inside. Statues of the saints had toppled from their niches...
...Convalescence. "Civilians, livestock and the wounded walk in long disciplined columns over the mountains at night. I asked whether plaster was available for fractures. Yes, it could always be captured from the enemy, but plaster breaks in the movement, so broken limbs are compressed by wooden boards nailed together. Nor is there any convalescence possible in this country - a man belongs to a walking hospital or to the front...
Fortunately, it took less than a month to get his foot out of the plaster cast. It must have been a great day for him when the military authorities notified him he would be the one U.S. correspondent to join Tito's forces and eyewitness their counterattack against the Germans at the moment of the Allied invasion across the Channel...