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...design him such an object. Last week Mr. Melville's smashable went on sale in Manhattan and Chicago, was snapped up by the hundreds at 50? each by citizens with breakage in their hearts. The object, named "Wackaroo," is a small (4½ inches high), idol-like, plaster figure, in red, black, white, blue or yellow, designed to fit the angry human hand. Directions for using: "When you are mad or feel like busting things, be sure to grab him quick and smash him - SMACK! - to bits against the wall and then, relax!" The wackaroo smashes to very satisfactory...
...consensus is that those who were there didn't know it either. The evidence he adduces is that on September 8 water mains were "smashed right and left, all over town." "The streets were full of rubble, blown up from direct hits, filled with glass and brick and furniture, plaster, piping. . . . Whole telephone exchanges were out all over town. . . . No traffic--neither fire engines nor ambulances--can get through...
...Smoking" signs plaster all the offices near...
...gallery's enterprising director, bald, sad-eyed Curt Valentin, had chosen 26 assorted bronzes, terra cottas, plaster, wood and granite pieces by 16 of the ablest U. S. sculptors. All of them were U. S. citizens, but less than half of them were U. S.-born & bred. Deftest sculptures exhibited were by Ukrainian-born Abstractionist Alexander Archipenko, German-born Heinz Warneke, Spanish-born José de Creeft, who teaches at Manhattan's New School for Social Research...
...were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts and a navel, modeled with necrophilic realism and euphemistically labeled The Span of Life, by Cleveland-born sculptor Hugo Robus. Prices ran from...