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Heavy-Fingered. In Walla Walla, Wash., someone broke into A. Wylie's monument display room, stole two tombstones...
...week, handing down their judgments with clipped finality: "No. No. Terrible. No. Yes." Propped against packing cases for their decision were 274 survivors of the 3,500 models entered in the biggest sculpture contest ever held. The stakes: $32,000 in prizes, offered by an anonymous donor for a monument honoring The Unknown Political Prisoner (TIME, Feb. 9). When the experts were finished, the $12,670 grand prize went to Britain's Reg Butler, 39, a shaggy-haired architect turned sculptor who made his first real splash at last summer's Venice Biennale...
...Unknown Prisoner, Butler chose something between abstraction and realism: a forbiddingly cold and empty structure, rising like some futuristic television antenna, with three grieving women looking up from beneath. Butler thinks that his symbolism suits a monument far better than any standard, realistic figure. Says he: "You must avoid the reaction, 'Oh, poor chap, he does look thin.' And if I made a statue of a god, it would be a big man or a small man with a big tummy or a flat tummy. So to make an image, I conceive a prisoner who is invisible...
...little (5 ft. 5½ in., 134 Ibs.) feather of a man, has never worried about financial rewards. The Russian-born son of a harness maker, he started out as a middling good classical sculptor, tired of it in 1920 just after he won the sculpture competition for a monument in front of Grant's Tomb. "I felt it belonged to a world of the past," he says. "It had been done better than I could do it, and to continue would be a false thing." Baizerman rejected the commission, began experimenting with lithe, modern figures in bronze...
Every Secretary of Agriculture would like to leave, as a monument to his administration, a long-range farm program. But whenever farm groups face a price decline or crop failure, they set up such a political yowl the secretary must turn from his planning and play the role of fireman. Ezra Benson has discovered this early. Fanned by a gradual price decline, a sudden fear is sweeping the prairies, causing new agricultural groups to demand shelter from the free market...