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...bright skies, then frozen at night into suicidal speed runs. U.S. Army Private Leslie Streeter broke a shoulder bone. His teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since...
...completely crippled. Having broken his left ankle just before the opening, he sprained the right one immediately after it. Despite poor notices, Manhattan's City Center was packed when the second-night curtain rang up and Welles was rolled out in a wheelchair, one foot encased in a plaster cast, the other swathed in bandages. At 40, and weighing 260 Ibs., the heavy-jowled "boy wonder'' no longer looked like a precocious cherub, but he quickly demonstrated that he had not lost his showmanship...
Electric fans and extra heat had helped the Union's plaster to dry well, so that damage was not so great as it might have been. In particular the high, fancy ceiling of the main dining room remained perfectly intact. But repairs to roof timbers, upstairs walls, and furnishings will still bring the cost of the fire up to $15,000, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds...
...were at work putting temporary planking over the place where the roof had been cut away. Permanent repairs of the two burned-out roof timbers, the planks and slate of the roof itself, and the metal flashing will begin on Monday, Roberts said. Workmen will also begin re-plastering walls at the time, but will have to wait until the present plaster dries thoroughly before doing any painting, he added...
...cost of such damage was still uncertain late yesterday, according to Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds. Roberts explained that if the wall and ceiling plaster dries well ever the night it will need comparatively few repairs. On the other hand, he said, the whole dining hall ceiling might fall in, necessitating a very expensive restoration...