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Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
...Watkins Glen, N. Y. last week State park officials found a deer perched on a narrow rock ledge jutting out from the face of a sheer 83-ft. cliff. What would happen if it tried to go backward or forward could be seen by looking down. In the gorge 35 ft. below lay the broken body of the deer's mate. Only hope of rescue seemed to lie in throwing a bridge from the chasm's opposite bank. But the park-men knew that their first move would probably startle the deer into leaping off the ledge...
...Santa Fe now are art colonies. . . . Santa Fe now has much in common with Greenwich Village, Carmel, Provincetown and all those other foci of cultural infection which pimple the fair face of our land." The Author had a gun of his own at 9, at 11 began shooting deer, riding range with the cattlemen round his native Albuquerque, N. Mex. After a restless course at two universities he passed his forest ranger's examination, was waiting for an appointment when his father. New Mexico's only Representative, offered him a government job in Washington. After three weeks...
Working in his Paris studio, Paul Manship gave a year to the sketches for Paul Rainey's gate. He mapped American brown bear and deer in the foliage grillwork at the top, a lion, leopard and baboon on flanking bronze trees. In plaster he made little models of the animals, then bigger and finally over life-size models. He made a plaster double gate 4 ft. 5 in. high, fitted animals in scale into the design. Then with a pantograph* he made a replica 13 ft. high, then stepped that up to the full...