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Early this year, Monogram studios decided to film the life and exploits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha, who, according to legend, went among the warring Indian tribes and persuaded them to smoke the pipe of peace and brotherhood. Last week Monogram announced that the project had been shelved. Reason: Hiawatha hewed too close, for current U.S. taste, to the Communist "peace" line...
Daniel Chester French was only 24 when he finished his first major sculpture, the bronze Minute Man at Concord. Men of letters, such as Longfellow and Emerson, beamed encouragingly on his work. President Grant and most of his cabinet came on for the unveiling, which moved French's proud but cautious father to observe: "This is Fame, Dan. Make the most of it, for you don't know how long it will last...
...World War II, the Minute Man adorned millions of U.S. stamps and war bond posters. Later French sculptures, like the John Harvard who sits pondering his philanthropy in Harvard Yard and the Lincoln of Washington's Lincoln Memorial, had long since become as familiar to Americans' as Longfellow's Hiawatha...
...three-fourths miles, starting near the Longfellow Bridge and finishing near the M.I.T. boathouse...
...last four years Mrs. Baker has counselled more than six thousand married or engaged couples. Many of these pairs were distraught when they first visited the Longfellow Hall office. One husband summed up their state of mind: "If we sound confused, it is because we are confused. We don't know how to work out our situation...