Word: luth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knows what the man who founded Duluth, Minn., in 1679 looked like. Archives reveal little more than that he was a French voyageur named Daniel Greysolon, bore the title of Sieur Du Luth, served as foot captain in the Royal Guard, and became a friend of the Sioux Indians. To give him more substance, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, 74, was asked to make a bronze of Du Luth. "Find a younger man," advised the sculptor...
Tortured Totems. They couldn't-at least not to their liking. A year later, the committee returned to Lipchitz. This time they persuaded him to take on the challenge. Lipchitz decided: "He will have the look of a builder." To costume Du Luth, Lipchitz picked up clues wherever he could, garbed his figure in an Indian jacket, and placed a plumed hat atop his long curled peruke (two such wigs are known to have belonged to Du Luth). The result, conceived as a mythical hero (see opposite page), will be unveiled this week on the Duluth campus...
...Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. who left an estate of $22,579,000. ¶The Soneson scholarships, established last year in the will of Mrs. Anna Soneson Rahn to honor her first husband, who ran a chain of auto-parts stores. The grants, limited to Protestant graduates of Du-luth's public high schools, will pay half the expenses for pupils of outstanding character and leadership whose grades alone do not stamp them as brilliant...