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...doctor would corset his monkeys in waspish plaster casts (real girdles would not stay on), and X-ray them periodically. At week's end, Ivy thought he had a line on his monkeys: the Illinois Department of Public Health has a surplus shipment. No one had yet come forward with...
Algebra at Five. Today, in a faded yellow-brick-and-plaster house in Adyar, Maria Montessori is hard at work. She lectures in Italian two or three times a week; Mario translates into English for her. She is surer than ever of one thing: "The child is capable of achieving culture at an age hitherto unsuspected." She now teaches arithmetic at 3½, algebra at five, and finds that eight-year-olds learn algebra quicker than 14-year-olds, for they consider it a game, instead of something to dread. An 18-month-old child, she says, is "perhaps happiest...
Steppat took a plaster cast of the famous skull and laid down cork to the exact thickness called for at all 15 points. Then he connected the points with Plasticine. The result: an average face of Tepexpan Man. Said Steppat: "If the finished reconstruction doesn't look like the Tepexpan Man, it looks like his first cousin...
...small buildings, seldom larger than a half inch cube, are carved from molded blocks of savogran, a kind of plaster of Parts which dries quickly and firmly. Spires and towers are of brass, and fences are of copper wire...
...priest of painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...