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Brutal Beating. Hours later, he was in Monaco's Princess Grace hospital having the bone set by a French surgeon, Dr. Charles Chatelain, and his leg encased in a plaster cast. The doctor said that the operation "went very well," and hospital authorities said his constitution is "remarkable-quite Churchillian." A later report had it that the patient was "quite comfortable, but a bit crotchety." Churchill dined on cold chicken, then smoked a fat cigar with his habitual glass of brandy...
...their attempt, Morris and the Anglins took infinite pains. They stole tablespoons from the mess hall, removed the metal grills from the air vents in their cell walls, and night after night, between the guards' hourly bed checks, gouged the crumbly plaster and concrete from the vent. During the days, they kept the holes covered with cardboard grills that they had painted to resemble the original metal. They carefully collected the powdered concrete and plaster that they chipped away and each day scattered it during their outdoor exercise period...
Over the Top. Then, one night last week, the three made their break just after the 9:30 bed check. They stuffed pillows into their cots, topped them off with crude but passable dummy heads fashioned from plaster, paint, and hair scraps that they had gathered from the prison barber shop. The holes in the wall were only 10 in. by 14 in., and though the shoulders of the three men were as broad as 17 in., they pushed through into a little-used utility corridor behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe...
Seventy-two percent of the rooms in the two colleges are singles and the remainder doubles. Each of the rooms is roughly 170 square feet with built-in desks and bookcases. The windows are all floor-to-ceiling and three feet wide; the floors are stone and the walls plaster...
Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...