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Some day from a studio in the nearby National Museum Building will come another plaster figure to join the silent party. It will be a long-legged model probably dressed in Eleanor Blue and posed to suggest energy, cheer, simplicity. The face, which in the living original is dominated by a generous, tooth-filled mouth, receding chin and warm, humorous eyes, will be indistinguishable from the faces of all the other First Ladies. For Sculptor William H. Egberts of the Smithsonian avoids arguments with friends, relatives and the subjects themselves by giving all the Presidents' wives the face...
...glad to see that President Conant has appointed a Committee on Seals, Arms, and Diplomas to deal with doubted legitimacy of Harvard's famous Veritas escutcheon. The baroque plaster and wood emblazoned over the Dunster House Library probably constitutes Complaint No. 1, as it is radically incorrect. When the original designers took their idea to America's greatest heraldic wood carver in 1929 they were politely thrown out of the shop. The craftsman said he would not be party to such nonsense. He proved to his would-be elients that the lozenged shape of the ornament was the heraldic symbol...
Last year a CRIMSON editorial expressed the popular dissatisfaction with the acoustics of the Memorial Church and pointed out the necessary improvements, of which only a bare minimum has been carried out. Beside the insoluble difficulty of the architecture itself, the original problem was twofold; heavy carpets and rough plaster finish both absorbed sound, prevented resonance, and generally marred the performances of a capable choir. Some of the carpet has now been taken up, but conditions remain so bad that cushionless pews must be resorted to for the Sunday service, and still it is impossible for the choir to realize...
...mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin to fresco the walls of the new Oxford Union, they went to work with a will on the damp plaster walls, filled them with a profusion of Arthurian legends which peeled and faded within a year...
Best known Collier company is Barren G. Collier, Inc. which he founded in Memphis at the age of 17. He was then in charge of the city's street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads...