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...dribble of scree. And now the figures of these four great U. S. Presidents -Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt-would never be finished by their creator. For the man who had devoted nearly a quarter of his life to the task of hewing them from the mountainside, Gutzon Borglum, lay dead of a heart attack in a Chicago hospital...
...fiery, barrel-chested John Gutzon de La Mothe Borglum, the Mount Rushmore Memorial had been the crowning fight of a fighting career. Born nearly 70 years ago of Danish immigrant parents on an Idaho ranch, Borglum started out by modeling mud figures as a child on the banks of a nearby irrigation canal. When priests at a Catholic boarding school in Kansas tried to get him to draw saints and madonnas, he ran away to San Francisco to study, went on to Paris, where he worked under famed Sculptor Auguste Rodin. Back in the U. S. he bounded with bull...
...Sculptor Borglum's artistic ventures were of a piece with the rest. When, in 1907, church authorities objected to the attractive femininity of the angels he had carved for Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Borglum took a hammer and smashed them. In 1916 Borglum got his first job of mountain carving when the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hired him to decorate Stone Mountam with heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Just when he had got a good start, hot-tempered Borglum got into an argument over...
...instrument board of Eastern Air Lines Trip 21-New York to Brownsville-slim, 30-year-old Pilot Jim Perry knew that below him in the night was Stone Mountain. Not far from the radio fan marker that set the bulb alight, the unfinished stone faces of Gutzon Borglum's Confederate Memorial were sweaty with fog and rain. Atlanta's Candler Field was only twelve miles away...
Scuttling along the street to visit caustic, mountain-maiming old Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the Chicago hospital to which he had retired to treat a minor ailment, his wife slipped on the icy concrete, fractured her arm, joined her famed husband in the hospital...