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Within three-quarters of a mile of the burst, "substantial destruction of all except modern, reinforced concrete and heavy steel-frame buildings; up to 1½ miles, complete destruction of most old-style brick and frame buildings, and serious damage to modern buildings. Slight damage (plaster and glass) up to eight miles away. For at least two miles from the burst, streets blocked by rubble, and power, light and water lines knocked...
Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History put on a little show this week to make the weariest museum trudger smile: eight plaster statuettes of fabled animals. Among them were Pegasus sitting exhausted on a cloud, Leda tête-à-tête with a Donald-Duckish swan, Brer Rabbit battling the rude Tar Baby, Androcles nursing a huge, unhappy lion, and the elastic-nebbed elephant and tenacious crocodile of Kipling's Just So Stories. What the sculptures lacked in naturalism they more than made up for in naturalness...
...Plaster miniatures of these and lesser works went on exhibition in the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Museum last week, to celebrate the centenary of French's birth. His daughter, Margaret French Cresson (who once wrote a biography of her father-TIME, June 16, 1947), had selected and arranged the show. Among its carved mementos she included some more personal ones: French's mallets and chisels, cuff links, and a golden lock of hair clipped when he was three. Also on show was a life cast of French's sinewy hand, which turned out to be precisely like that...
...unexpected gesture, the tall, white-haired Bishop of Perpignan arose, raised his hands and gave the first clap, signaling an end to the church ban on applause. As bald little Pablo Casals bowed from the podium, the 2,000 listeners clapped so thunderously that a piece of plaster shook loose from the high roof, clattered into the church...
Died. Professor Thomas Whittemore, 79, Harvard archeologist who supervised the uncovering of St. Sophia's wondrous Byzantine mosaics; in Washington, D.C. The mosaics, constructed over the course of nine centuries by thousands of anonymous workmen, were plastered over by the Moslem Turks who took Constantinople in 1453 (the Koran prohibits images), remained hidden until 1932, when Whittemore began the painstaking job, still uncompleted, of removing the plaster chip by chip...