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...destroying fact ... no funds . . association has shrunk. . . ." Such phrases came, last week, from the lips of Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor. He, glum, was deploring the withdrawal of public support from the great memorial to the Confederacy which, under his direction, has been rising on the face of Stone Mountain, Ga. (TIME, Aug. 13, 1923; May 26, 1924). Those two proud gentlemen, Generals Lee and Jackson, stand raised among their armies on the mountain's craggy front, half- formed. In the U. S. mint, 5,000,000 half-dollar coins, with Lee and Jackson riding their horses across one side...
Moukbil Kemal Bey arrived, recently, in Manhattan to secure sketches and designs for the Mustafa Kemal statue. Naturally he journeyed to Stamford, Conn., and there consulted the famed U. S. sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, and received from him a sketch which, with others, he will take back to Turkey for approval. The definite acceptance of any plan will not be made for the present; but there is every prospect, it was said, of a $20,000 statue of the great Mustafa, "made in America," adorning the city of Angora...
...Gutzon Borglum, famed sculptor: "In The New York Times were published summaries of the peace plans of a number of unsuccessful contestants for the Bok award. My plan was included, as were also those of Charles W. Eliot, Bishop Charles H. Brent, David Starr Jordan, Simeon Strunsky (editorial writer on The New York Times) Dr. M. Carey Thomas (President Emeritus of Bryn Mawr College), William S. Culbertson (Vice Chairman U. S. Tariff Commission...
...sandwich will be found a grand Barbecue at the Druid Hills Golf Club, an out-of-door concert with Stone Mountain as a sounding board (it is on Stone Mountain that Gutzon Borglum is preparing to carve a historical representation of the South), and a visit to Emory University, the largest in the South...