Word: skins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stuffed. Jonas Brothers, New York taxidermists, used his skeleton as the armature for a sculptured clay model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...
...find this solution satisfactory, it does not tie up with his belief in a personal God and a great purpose behind life. Finally the scientist is led on to define his won theory of vital forces, which he conceives as whirlpools of energy. Our bodies, our bones and skin, are but the debris thrown out by this eddy, and we are but an accident of energy...
...romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing the redhead ducks (see cut} was reported to him by others. But he has seen a pair of bald eagles so chasing ducks in Connecticut. Too slow for the ducks...
...rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a prolonged infection. An ordinary felon (whitlow) is a skin or bone inflammation which usually lasts about three weeks. So long as the felon was "engaged in his employment, or maturing his felonious little plans," Pianist Schelling could play no solos. He could, however, and did, conduct the Saturday Philharmonic concerts for children, to whom he is known as "Uncle Ernest...
...uses for rubber. They have branched into everything from dirigibles to syringes, from road paving to toothbrushes. Last week B. F. Goodrich Co.'s subsidiary, Miller Rubber Products, announced that after six years of experimentation it had perfected a new rubber doll. Flesh tints are ingrained, the skin soft, the limbs flexible. There is no interior bracing to make it heavy and cumbersome. James Taylor, head of the doll division, says that it was first manufactured only in an 18-in. size, but that the cry for smaller sizes forced them to supply dolls down to 10 in. Dollman...