Word: whittler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wooden hat blocks are old hat to the millinery industry. A designer fashions a new shape, a whittler carves it in wood, and then it is mechanically mass-produced. Felt is draped over it, steamed and pressed into its contours, and voil...
...WHITTLER ECHEWA (A Black) Instructor Special Education Center Grambling College Grambling...
...that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even a modest metal mermaid...
...play by Graham Greene is a curiosity and a half. Called Carving a Statue, it stars Ralph Richardson, who is a single-minded whittler. To the exclusion of all else, he works in his studio on a massive statue of God. Well, not quite all else. He takes time out to seduce his son's girl friend. Then the family doctor has a go at the boy's next girl, who happens to be a deaf-mute. She runs off and is killed. Despite head-scratching reviews, the play is running strong. It will in all likelihood make...
WILLIE MAE WHITTLER...