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...courtroom so tight for the State hearing on her reinstatement plea that one oldster fainted and Ward Van De Bogart Jr., 7, who once had his lips taped for whispering, fell sound asleep. Star witness was Ward's big brother Edward. "What did your brother do after the plaster was put on his lips?" Edward was asked. "He started studying," replied the witness. Loyal pupils testified that Trustee Armstrong himself had placed the small flag in the coal bin, that they had not recited the oath of allegiance regularly since Miss De Lee left. Tightly clasping an American Beauty...
...desolate coral reef 65 mi. off Key West in the Gulf of Mexico. The reef, named Dry Tortugas by Ponce de Leon because it swarmed with turtles, consisted of ten keys-strung ten miles east & west. With tremendous enthusiasm and at tremendous cost the Government began to transport plaster, mortar, bricks from the North. Slowly on 25-acre Garden Key rose Fort Jefferson-barracks for six companies, 18 sets of officers' quarters, a hospital, a chapel-all surrounded by a huge wall jutting with bastions. It was a sight to swell every U. S. heart. But as time passed...
...Marie Harriman Gallery in Manhattan this week went shapes in polished nickel, bronze, marble, wood and plaster, the latest exhibition of the works of able young Isamu Noguchi, son of a Japanese father, a U. S. mother. The show contained the usual Noguchi melange of clever portrait heads, elaborate abstractions, projects for impossible architectural developments. In the latter manner was a strange triangular something called Monument to the Plow...
Poorest of Europe's royalty, Little Tsar Boris sat in his yellow plaster palace at Sofia and waited. Last week came his chance. Scenting a swing in his favor he had refused fortnight ago to dismiss a number of officers as demanded by War Minister General Zlateff, presumably at the suggestion of the Veltcheff-Gueorguieff dictatorship. General Zlateff did a little scouting on his own, then with a shrill whistle of surprise swung to his sovereign's side. It was a wise move. Last week Little Tsar Boris was strong enough to dismiss the entire dictatorship and make...
...mouldering linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks and three mortgages, altogether worth $513,000. Spinster...