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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...
Model Wife (Universal). Year ago the American Mothers Society of New York decided that blonde, bumpy Joan Blondell was America's Most Glamorous Mother. This year they reaffirmed their decision, commissioned a sculptor to preserve Mother Blondell in bronze. This was Universal's cue to acquaint cinemagoers with the marital charms of their beglamored star...
...people." These words describing the German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...
...Bonds will be plugged by radio, newspapers, magazines, a staff of trained speakers, posters (first year's promotion cost: $1,500,000). Already submitted is a poster designed from Sculptor Daniel Chester French's statue "Minute...
...Sculptor Borglum's artistic ventures were of a piece with the rest. When, in 1907, church authorities objected to the attractive femininity of the angels he had carved for Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Borglum took a hammer and smashed them. In 1916 Borglum got his first job of mountain carving when the Atlanta Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hired him to decorate Stone Mountam with heads of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Just when he had got a good start, hot-tempered Borglum got into an argument over...