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...great proportion of the rooms at Winthrop contain dumb-bells, and plaster casts of the discus-thrower outnumber other sculpture three to one. This is because Winthrop members are traditionally athletic, and show no sign of relaxing their interest in intramural and all-College sports. There are even some intra-House sports, such as water-fighting, which have been highly organized in the past...
...Century, had been baked to oblivion. The rich reds and greens of the originals, which the loving care of generations of monks (and recent injections of acrylic resin) had helped preserve, were gone; the delicately-draped Buddhas and elegant Bodhisattvas were only faint black outlines on the smoke-smirched plaster...
There is nothing modern about modern church statuary. Roman Catholic churches everywhere are filled with mass-production plaster replicas that perpetuate igth Century traditions of prettiness and molasses-smoothness. One reason is that few parishes can afford to commission sculptures on their own. Instead they buy from manufacturers catering to a safely low denominator of public taste. In Paris, a row of shops along the Rue St.-Sulpice supplies the demand. In the U.S., it's Barclay Street, in downtown Manhattan...
...another two-legged monster more ancient and primitive than man. About two weeks ago, Michael Kosinski, a contractor, noticed some curious tracks in a sandstone ledge near Hallton, 90 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. He told his brother James, who works for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum. James took plaster casts of the tracks to Dr. J. LeRoy Kay, who hurried out for a first-hand look at them...
...quarterback Bill Henry runing the show for three periods with one eye sealed tight by a scratch; Captain Kenny O'Donnell scoring what proved to be the winning touchdown with his fractured leg in a plaster cast; third string center Chuck Glynn saving a touchdown by knocking Keller out of bounds on the Harvard two on fourth down; third-string tailback Jim Kenary intercepting a Furse pass on the Harvard seven; and above all, it was the finesse with which everybody carried out his assignment, whether it was blocking, tackling, or running. "The most beautiful drilled team I've seen...