Word: three-ton
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...extremely high strung, Sculptor Lachaise finds emotional relief in modeling monstrous female figures with breasts like melons, hips like hills. Prize piece in last week's show was a 2,000 Ib. female figure in moulded concrete known as The Mountain (see cut). Seven men and a three-ton truck worked from 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. to get it to the museum. Winches, ropes, pulleys and masses of wadding were used to hoist it from the basement of the Ettl Studios to the street level. Sculptor Lachaise was too nervous to watch but telephoned every...
...Henry Boardman Stewart, 77, has been practicing in & around Fair View, S. C. (pop. 45) for 51 years. He has been the sponsor of the Fair View Stock Show, county fair which had its 43rd session last October. Last: summer old Country Doctor Stewart caused the erection of a three-ton granite slab. Carved on one end is his name as donor, at the other end is a doctor's satchel. The front is "dedicated to the memory of the family physician." The back is "in memory of those [wives] who keep the home fires burning while the doctor...
John Wanamaker of Manhattan and Capt. Charlie Thompson, famed old-time fishing guide, were towed 40 mi. to sea off Montauk Point, L. I. by a three-ton whale which absorbed two harpoons and 40 bullets before dying...
...side. Floyd Gibbons, famed journalist, will be guest. From Cuba to Central America, South America and the close-linked West Indies, he planned to circle the famed buccaneer waters. Last week his new plane, the Liberty, was being tuned up at Mitchel Field, L. I. She is a three-ton yacht of the air, with luxurious cabin, two motors of 520 horsepower each, speed of 140 miles per hour. She cost...