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...cold water. Let him lie still, on his back, and receive a little carbon-dioxide gas mixed with oxygen. Any observable deformity (harelip, club feet, etc.) should be mended during the first month or two. Floppy ears will often set if merely held close to the head with adhesive plaster...
...temperature of the fire-pit was measured at 800° F. The soles of Kuda Bux's feet were examined and no sign of callous thickening which might afford protection was found. A surgeon stuck a piece of court plaster under the arch of the dusky performer's right foot. Kuda Bux faced his audience, said: "Anything can be done with faith...
...brothers of The Bronx are the world's greatest team of sculptors. But, like the Pisani of the 13th Century, they prefer to think of themselves as "masters of stone." As such, they make most of their money anonymously converting into their own Italian marble the clay and plaster models of less handy and sometimes more famed U. S. sculptors. Last week, for probably the first time in Piccirilli history, someone else had the job of executing work by a Piccirilli...
...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
...faces of Chief Justice Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall (as a boy), Architect Cass Gilbert and himself. The brothers' business boomed. The red brick house grew to a 20-room catacomb of high-ceilinged workshops, spare of furniture, full of great lumps of stone, clay, plaster. One piece, a huge statue of James Monroe, ordered and paid for by a Venezuelan President who lost his job unexpectedly, stood around for 30 years until the Piccirillis gave it to the State of Virginia. On another piece the Christian Science Church paid 20 years' storage charges...