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...Washington at 2:40 p.m. Mr. Welles entered the State Department, strode into the big, paper-cluttered office of his chief, Cordell Hull. Twenty-nine minutes later Mr. Welles, his face settled into its mask of boredom, Mr. Hull, with his patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge...
...mummy's head was sheathed in a mask of pure gold. In the case were gold chest ornaments, necklaces, 21 bracelets inscribed with family records, six beautifully carved scarabs strung on a gold wire, gold finger and toe cases, like those on the mummy of Tutankhamen. Egyptologists declared that it was as remarkable an archeological haul as Howard Carter & Co. had found in King Tut's tomb...
Inspecting Canadian troops at Aldershot, War Minister Oliver Stanley left his gas mask in his motor, as did the Canadians' commander, Major General Andrew George Lotto McNaughton, and other brass hats. When the gas alarm sounded during a demonstration of trench digging and barbed wire work, Minister Stanley & brass hats complacently watched the soldiers clap on masks as a white cloud rolled across the field. When the cloud reached them, Minister Stanley & brass hats broke for shelter, eyes streaming. The gas was real. "It just goes to show you," observed red-eyed Minister Stanley, "how these men are working...
...academic, he uses a selective symbolism that packs more into a fragment than many sculptors get in a whole figure. Mother and Child consists of a woman's head and arm, with a baby's head nestled peacefully in the palm of her hand. The double mask Time shows the same face in youth and old age. Zog of Albania commissioned Time last spring, lost his throne before it could be delivered. "Fortunately I received the mo-nee," says Fingesten with a grin, "and it paid for my passage to America...
Last week, neatly dusted off, 20 of Sculptor Browere's busts were exhibited in Manhattan's plushy Knoedler Galleries. Their realism predates the candid camera by a century. Browere's exact method died with his son Alburtus, differed markedly from the usual life mask's heavy layer of plaster or clay applied while the subject is flat on his back. Like a modern lace-pack beauty treatment, it consisted of a series of light, quick-drying layers that could be put on while the subject sat at his ease. Thus beplastered for posterity were Thomas Jefferson...