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...broken in an auto accident when he was on his way to shoot pheasants. He fought with the same tenacity with which he had fought his enemies. He was mending so well that medics took off the elaborate traction apparatus and put their 60-year-old patient in a plaster cast. There was talk of flying him home. Then a respiratory infection set in. Last week-twelve days after his accident-George Patton died in his sleep...
Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala, in a plaster cast, gingerly resumed some of his duties of office. On his way to a quiet holiday in the mountains, the President and his auto had shot off the edge of a 400-ft. precipice. Car and engine bounced apart on the way down. The President miraculously broke nothing...
...first of Mary Shelley [Shelley's second wife], and after her death, in 1851, of Lady Shelley, wife of the poet's son, Sir Percy Florence Shelley." The authors' sensational charge: in building their dome of many-colored glass in which to enshrine Shelley as a plaster saint, Mary and Lady Shelley falsified biographical facts, suppressed and destroyed important letters and parts of journals and made liberal use of forged documents...
Innkeeper's Delight. Composer Vejvoda, 43 and balding, now runs a pleasant plaster inn on the banks of the Vltava. In his prosperity, he owns two 20-piece bands...
...illustrate his thesis, Junyer has exhibited eleven figure models, scenic projects, and a "dance composition in high relief"-an ingenious polychrome plaster plaque. These exhibits demonstrate ways of putting his idea into practice: 1) by molding and painting lifesize images of dancers into the props of ballet sets; 2) by setting up colored, abstract manikins as foils for dancers; 3) by shaping scenery surfaces so that they reflect all chance positions of lighting...