Word: lorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Actor Melvyn Douglas, now an Army major shepherding entertainers in the China-Burma-India theater. Miss Gahagan is a former Broadway star (Tonight or Never), mother of two, a passionate New Dealer. Another new Douglas (no relation) in the House is Emily Taft Douglas, daughter of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft, distant cousin of William Howard Taft. Her husband, a University of Chicago economics professor on military leave, was defeated for the Senate in 1942, is now a Marine captain serving in the South Pacific. Third new Congresswoman is Connecticut's grey, matronly Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, political economy...
Working in the studio of the late Sculptor Lorado Taft at Chicago, she analyzed materials from living trees, old log cabins and bridges, refuse from sawmills and barrel factories, charcoal from old campfires, relics from Indian caves and graves, a ton of tree sections supplied by a Wisconsin paper manufacturer who had just taken a paper contract for LIFE. She patiently placed pieces hundreds of years old in sequence by their overlapping ring patterns, and reconstructed growth calendars for several types of trees...