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...carving in the U.S.* has been under way since last autumn. Dark-haired, muscular Sculptor Carroll Barnes has been chopping away at a 22-ton hunk of Sequoia gigantea (world's largest tree), gradually carving it into a gigantic statue of the lumberman's legendary hero, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, Babe. Last week, depressed by poor returns from his first one-man show in San Francisco, Barnes had a mind to hang a "war casualty" sign on Paul and get a job driving a tractor...
Iowa-born Carroll Barnes studied at Washington's Corcoran School of Art, later held a scholarship at Michigan's famed Cranbrook Academy. He got the idea for his heroic-sized statue from a Los Angeles critic who had seen a smaller, 4 ft. 6 in. Paul Bunyan by Barnes at an exhibition, thought it might look well four times as big. His opportunity came when he heard that a sequoia tree standing on the slopes of the Sierras had been weakened in a Mt. Whitney hurricane, and could be cut down. Barnes trucked an 18-ft. section...
They sang as they went, from Salty New England to dusty Oklahoma. In the Johnny Appleseed country-Ohio and Indiana-they sang of Johnny Appleseed. They recounted Paul Bunyan's exploits in one of his own legendary stamping grounds, wooded north Michigan, while husky loggers clapped and yowled. They regaled Louisiana audiences with Creole songs. In their 7,500-mile, 21-State trip they warmed U.S. hearts with songs that were part of their soil and blood. Last week, when a dirt-stained bus rolled them from Greensboro, N.C. into Manhattan, the American Ballad Singers had wound up their...
Reinhold Glière: Symphony No. 3 ("Ilya Murometz") (Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor; 11 sides). A Soviet composer, no modernist, writes rousingly of Ilya Murometz, a mythical Russian resembling Paul Bunyan and the classical, earth-sustained Antaeus. Stokowski gives it the works...
...native novelist and newspaperwoman, has pulled together some of the stories of these old-timers and woven them into a book of travels, essays and speculation about the Pacific Northwest. Much of what she writes is guidebook stuff-dutiful chapters on landscape, legends, and the myths of Paul Bunyan (who is by now one of the biggest bores in the whole bleak record of synthetic folklore). There is also a good map and 48 superb photographs. But Mrs. Ross's humor, sensitivity to the ways of a people whose pioneer forefathers are not all dead yet, make Farthest Reach...