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...having burned only some outside molding and roof beams at the southwest corner of the building. To get at the smoldering blaze, however, firemen had had to tear away walls, rip through ceilings, and shoot high-pressure water throughout the whole leaky structure. The result was extensive damage to plaster and furnishings on the upper floors and in the western half of the main dining room...
Composer Roy Harris lay, right leg from hip to toe in plaster, in a Pittsburgh hospital after an automobile accident, but his spirit was with Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra as they rehearsed for their first performance of his Seventh Symphony. On the podium Ormandy read Harris' letter explaining how to play the music. Excerpts...
Then they began dozens of questions about mass-production methods, approvingly appraised mechanized earthmovers. New to them, and thunderously thumped, were steel doors and gypsum-board walls to substitute for plaster, as well as cost-cutting low ceilings, which they carefully measured. They showed puzzlement when a builder explained the usefulness of a low room divider between a living room and dining area. Placed on the divider, said the builder, a swiveling TV set permits children to view while eating. "It's been one of the biggest selling points of this house," he said. The Russians burst into laughter...
...floor pressroom of his downtown publishing house, a passage led to an underground vault lined with rosewood. A bedroom there had silk pajamas, an emergency supply of oxygen, and a wall safe big enough to walk into. Oddly, when investigators did enter the safe, they easily tapped out the plaster wall at the back and found a long underground escape passage leading to another office building next door...
...yourself followers. Trained during his boyhood as a mason and stucco decorator before he won a scholarship at Milan's Art Institute, Nivola was struck one day by the fact that his sand doodles could be cast simply by reversing the patterns and filling them with plaster or concrete. When the first casts came up covered with fine-grained sand Nivola was delighted to discover that they combined the texture of sand with the permanence of stone...