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...honored by the statue authorized by S. J. Res. 21 was no other than Robert Green Ingersoll. Since 1930 the Freethinkers have been collecting funds to erect a statue of their agnostic hero, first planning to dedicate it on the centenary of his birth last August. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum, commissioned to make the statue, completed in his Texas studio a clay model of the orator, in frock coat with arms akimbo. When cast in bronze the figure will be 12 ft. high, standing upon an 8-ft. marble base. Before that can take place, however, the House must also approve...
...Capitol's Statuary Hall stands a large Gutzon Borglum bronze of the late John Campbell Greenway in Army breeches, boots, crop and shirt. Arizona chose this Yaleman, Rough Rider, A. E. F. colonel, rancher and copper tycoon as one of its two most distinguished citizens, had his statue made and presented to the Government. Last week the youngest State started John Greenway's widow on her way to the Capitol and to a seat in the House of Representatives not 100 yards from her husband's statue. Arizona Democrats nominated Mrs. Greenway to be their State...
...After a few years of Japanese school he was sent to the Interlaken experimental school in Rolling Prairie, Ind. and subjected to the ideas of Edward Aloysius Rumely, its director. It was here that young Noguchi first decided to be an artist. In 1922 he apprenticed himself to Gutzon Borglum. Six months in the Borglum studio convinced him that he ought to be a surgeon. He took a number of premedical courses at Columbia University in 1922-23, there met and gained the friendship of his great namesake the bacteriologist...
...Masters Stone, 55, sculptor, poet; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late Judge Hardin Wallace Masters who succeeded Abraham Lincoln in the Springfield law firm of Lincoln & Herndon, she was a sister of Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology). She studied sculpture under Antoine Bourdelle and Gutzon Borglum, had lately done a bust of Lincoln as a youth for the Illinois...
...second wife, 56-year-old Anna Hyatt Huntington, is the daughter of Zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France...