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...Custer, would you care to donate to Indian relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1957 | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Scott Custer and Tony Smith will face George Siegal and Dave Gordon in the finals of the Mens' Doubles tennis tournament tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. on the varsity courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Tournament Finals | 8/14/1957 | See Source »

Horse, the Sioux chief who was captured and killed in 1877, after the slaughter at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, where Custer made his last stand. In 1939 Crazy Horse's nephew, Henry Standing Bear, who knew that Ziolkowski had done some work on South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, asked him to carve a Crazy Horse memorial. Said Standing Bear, after a long look at the faces of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore: "We want the white man to know that the Indian had heroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Mountain-Carver | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...nearby town of Custer, S. Dak. (pop. 3,000), Ziolkowski became a center of controversy. At the Gold Pan Tavern and Flyspeck Billy's along Custer's main street, just four miles from Crazy Horse, sentiment ran high. More than half the town was behind Ziolkowski. but some of the people thought that Crazy Korczak would be a better name for the venture. Financing the work with his own money, contributions and tourist admissions, Ziolkowski has not got on as fast as some of his boosters would like. They persuaded him to seek a federal loan, but when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Mountain-Carver | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Stewart Granger. Either way the buffalo end up dead, but the fine distinction enables Producer Dore Schary to appear moralistic rather than brutal as he records the gory slaughter of bison in South Dakota's Custer State Park, where the actual killing was done by park sharpshooters in their annual thinning of the herd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 5, 1956 | 3/5/1956 | See Source »

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