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Illustrated by big-chiseling Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, laconic Calvin Coolidge's 500-word history of the U. S. to be carved on the face of Mt. Rushmore, S. Dak., will be legible from three miles away (TIME, Jan. 27). Last week the design committee announced the names and events which would be hewn and gilded in live granite...
...compare the Lincoln and Davis faces, one will only have to stand in the narrow connecting passage between Statuary Hall and the Rotunda where is placed the Lincoln head, rising as if half-finished out of solid stone, carved by Gutzon Borglum (donated by Eugene Meyer Jr., onetime Farm Loan Commissioner). To the sorrow of romantic historians the two antagonists of the Civil War will not gaze mournfully upon each other...
...specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that...
...Carl Raymond Gray, U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, Author Bess Streeter Aldrich (American Magazine, Ladies Home Journal), General John Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington...
Last week Sculptor Borglum announced that his return to the airy Stone Mountain scaffoldings was likely, that the Memorial Association had been penitent, urgent. "I was dismissed," he said, "because it was charged that I dominated the entire project. I do not deny this. But I am going back and dominate the project without interference...