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Last week appeared three items of news, each a distant echo of the roar made by Sculptor Gutzon Borglum when ousted last winter (TIME, Mar. 16) by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association...
...Atlanta Sculptor Augustus Lukeman, chosen to succeed Borglum at his task, finished a plaster model of what Stone Mountain will look like when his men have hacked and drilled it. Jefferson Davis, in a flowing riding cape, rides into eternity across the mountain-front, closely followed by General Robert E. Lee astride his famed "Traveler", with General Stonewall Jackson pressing on his flank with a detachment of eight tattered troopers...
Ubiquitous Gutzon Borglum, cleaver of rocks, carver of mountains, talked to a reporter in Kansas City. He declared that the rancor of the Stone Mountain Controversy (TIME, Mar.. 2 et seq.) boiled no more within him, that he was now about to throw all his energies, his visions, his genius into a great project in-"North Carolina?" queried the reporter. "No, South Dakota," replied Borglum. With the sculptor was his son, Lincoln Borglum. "Tell the man about Bryan, Daddy," suggested Lincoln. Hill-Hammerer Borglum then spoke of William Jennings Bryan, related how, before he resigned as Secretary of State...
...expressed a wish," said Mr. Borglum, "that some day effigies be made of the casts for the common tomb in which he will lie with his wife, that he might be commemorated as were the old monarchs of Europe...
...losing no time in doing preliminary work and before I return to Raleigh I expect to have completed preliminary outlines of this memorial," said Air. Borglum...