Word: plasters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bureau of Internal Revenue. As he entered item 6, added items 2 and 3, and fumbled distractedly with old dentist's and gasoline bills, he sometimes stopped to stare for long intervals at the ceiling-as if he expected to see a little loudspeaker push through the plaster and hear President Truman's voice saying softly: "Oh, pshaw, Jim, we've decided to call the tax off this year...
...themselves with work clothes, picks, shovels and roadblocks, spent an industrious evening digging a ten-foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp of a horrified attendant. In addition, he has diverted himself by planting fake pearls in oysters, coaching South Sea Island native youngsters in fantastic Troy-devised folk tales to be retold to gullible anthropologists...
...house of mystery, however, Matthews makes its proudest boast. For instance, while workmen were pealing off four layers of wallpaper and one of burlap in Matthews 6 a few years ago, they uncovered a painting on the plaster. With the aid of a microscope they deciphered the artist's name, Philip L. Cheney '21, who had occupied the room alone in 1917-18 and was known as a recluse. Over the years, the artist has become well known, and his works hang in many museums throughout the country...
...past to such masters as Whistler, Winslow Homer and George Bellows, went to Louis Guglielmi of Manhattan for his New York 21, an expert semi-abstraction. Lithuanian-born Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz admitted that he was bucked up when his Prometheus Strangling the Vulture, a powerful, aggressively ugly study in plaster, won the top sculpture award. A few days after he sent Prometheus off to Philadelphia for the academy show, fire destroyed his Manhattan studio, along with ten years of work in models, sketches and drawings. "Part of my life is gone," said Lipchitz, "but the fact that Prometheus is safe...
Sentimental Loss. Paleontologists felt little more than a sentimental sense of loss. Before Pearl Harbor, plaster casts had been made of the ancient bones and shipped to a number of Western museums. The cast of a female Peking cranium, fondly known as Suzanne, was built up into a composite skull. Then, early last spring, Dr. Pei Wen-chung, one of the men who found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later...