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...plaster made of native gypsum and animal glue on which colors are applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Saints from the Southwest | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...workmen finished. The statue of Thomas Jefferson-in plaster until the end of World War II makes bronze available again-stood 19 ft. tall in the great room, looking across the basin toward the White House. After seven years of planning, after four years of work, the Jefferson Memorial was finished, built as the southern and last wing of the famed kite-shaped "L'Enfant plan," of which the White House is the northern wing, and the Capitol, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial are the east-west line, connected by the Mall. Next week, on the 200th annivesary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Jefferson's 200th | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...White. Wound treatment was kept simple: gunshot wounds had their edges cut away, were not sewed up; wounds involving bone were usually put in plaster casts (the Orr-Trueta method which got its first full tryout in the Spanish War; TIME, July 8, 1940), and left alone, perhaps for weeks. "Some surgeons made a habit of using sphagnum moss* for surgical dressings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Surgeons of Leningrad | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Harvard University last week owned up to art faking. Director Edward W. Forbes of Harvard's Fogg Art Museum admitted that ostensibly bronze German statues stored in Harvard's Germanic Museum are really plaster of Paris, painted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fakes Unveiled | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...school was packed. Dali declares that he was so infuriated by this insult to the King that he waited until the school was empty, locked himself in the sculpture classroom, turned the faucet on full force. Says Dali: "My idea was very simple: to cause a great inundation of plaster. I used all the four sacks of plaster that were in the room. . . . As the [plaster] was greatly diluted, [it] was able to flow under the doors. Soon I could hear the sound of the cascade . . . flowing from the top of the stairway all the way down to the entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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