Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Begun with State funds in 1927 and carried forward by Congressional appropriations, the Mount Rushmore Memorial has long been Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore...
Twice before this summer had the Toledo Museum pounced on the sort of thing it wants. From a private English collection which had last shown it at the Royal Academy Exhibition of Old Masters in 1904, the Museum acquired Adoration oj the Child, painted about 1495 by Piero di Cosimo for Lorenzo de' Medici. Notable for its luxuriant and microscopic detail and for the figure of the Child asleep. Piero's own idea, that masterpiece was one of the few the Museum could lay its hands on that it considered worthy of hanging with such possessions as Filippo...
Europe-bound aboard the Normandie was Colorado Copperman Spencer Penrose, who keeps on his Colorado Springs summer-resort estate a menagerie of lions, bears, elephants. Said he: "This country has entered a dog-eat-dog era. ... I don't mind, I got sharp teeth...
...Model T Ford, convinced citizens that the U. S. auto centre should be the centre of U. S. auto racing. He built his motor speedway by securing the site, lumber, oil and contractor's services through profit-sharing agreements, attracted nightly crowds of 10,000 the past summer. His customary 83-cent top he boosted to $3.30 for last week's derby. Like his colleagues. Promoter Zeiter makes every driver sign a waiver absolving him from damages before getting onto his track, but he is less sympathetic than most. Don Zeiter's belief is that...
...long-term contracts most of the leading drivers appearing on a mushrooming series of Midwest tracks. Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year. A midget race in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium last summer drew 53,000 customers, largest professional sport gate that city had enjoyed since the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1926. Today there are profitable tracks in scores of U. S. cities, fly-by-night ventures in a hundred more. The sport has been roughly organized into Midwest, Pacific and Atlantic associations...