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Word: korczak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gutzon Borglum could carve up a mountain, why couldn't he? For years he had been itching to, so Boston-born Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski, 39, bought a mountain - a small one - in the Black Hills of South Dakota and laid his plans. He was going to chip it down to a 300-ft.-high monument : Sioux Chief Crazy Horse, who wiped out Custer's cavalry at Little Big Horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Chipper | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...Revolutionary uniforms, rattling loud tattoos. Traffic Cop Arnold Belanger dressed up like George Washington. The Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, dean of Hartford Theological Seminary, read a prologue. But, in spite of this whoop-dee-do, West Hartfordians' emotions were mixed. They had been mixed ever since Sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski had first suggested adorning West Hartford with his statue of Noah Webster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sculptor & Noah Webster | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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