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...Look Now. The Post's rambunctious history began one day in 1895 when blue-eyed, roly-poly Harry Tammen, bartender at Denver's Windsor Hotel, strolled into the littered city room of the old Evening Post. At his side was a new-found friend, swarthy, wax-mustached Frederick. Gilmer Bonfils (pronounced bonn-fees), a dashing promoter who had just cleaned up $800,000 in the notorious "Little Louisiana" lottery. To weary Postmen playing poker, Harry Tammen drawled: "Don't let us disturb you but we've just taken over this paper...
...Brooklyn show's best things-a molded gold flask (see cut)-was made by the cire-perdue (lost wax) method, which the ancient Egyptians-and Benvenuto Cellini-also used. The flask was modeled in wax, then covered with clay. When the clay was baked, the wax melted and was drawn off. Molten gold was then poured into the baked clay mold...
...notable items: a delicately carved jade burial mask designed to fit over a mummy's face; a breastplate with three leaping, snarling jaguars; a gold flute on which two baby lizards crawled; a toothpick-size silver spoon with a tiny monkey perched on the handle-designed to scoop wax out of a Peruvian aristocrat's ears...
...every skier knows, waxing a ski makes it slide more easily over snow. Applying wax to wood has become a ritual and a pseudo-science among skiers. But it may soon become a lost art. Last week Dow Chemical Co. announced the first successful all-metal ski. It needs no waxing...
...support his preference, carving direct in stone or wood, De Creeft quotes Michelangelo ("sculpture is done by a process of removal"), soft-pedaling the fact that most of Michelangelo's stone carvings were copied from studies which he modeled in wax, and that all of his bronzes were cast from modeled clay. De Creeft believes that a sculpture, like the chicken in the egg, is partially "preexistent" in the shape of the block, the grain, the texture. He thinks of himself as trying to "collaborate" with the stone to free the figure concealed inside...