Word: borglum
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Many a Washington tourist could identify the next Governor of the Federal Reserve Board as the gilt-lettered name of the donor of a fine head of Abraham Lincoln, sculptured by famed Gutzon Borglum and standing in the rotunda of the Capitol...
...went to one Peter P. Ott of Manhattan for his soap torso done in a Greek manner. That the contest had left the realm of advertising and ventured into the realm of pure art seemed indicated by the jury of award which listed among others Sculptors Gutzon Borglum, Lorado Taft, Artist Charles Dana Gibson, Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett. Many of the competing sculptors were obviously serious in their work. The work of some was creditable. To most, however (including Colyumist Robert Littell of the New York World who suggested that the advantage of soap statuary was that it would float...
...President in 1928." After the election of 1928 restored Calvin Coolidge to private life, South Dakota joined the parade of those seeking to enlist his laconic literary talent. It was arranged that he should write a 500-word history of the U. S. for Sculptor Gutzon Borglum to carve upon the granite face of Mount Rushmore, popular eminence in the Black Hills...
Last week the first two chapters of this history were made public, arranged the way Sculptor Borglum's mountain-carving crew will reproduce them. It was seen that the historian, beginning with the Declaration of Independence, had managed to reach the end of the Constitutional Connvention with an expenditure of only 75 words, thus...
Names: possibly George Washington, Abraham Lincoln; probably Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt; certainly Calvin Coolidge, Gutzon Borglum...