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...acre estate at Hahatonka, near the damsite. Onetime Senator James Reed, the plaintiffs' attorney, declared at Jefferson City that Hahatonka "was one of the wonder spots of the world." Its "castle," lake and sparkling, spring-fed trout-stream drew visitors from all over the world. Mountain-whittling Gutzon Borglum promised to testify for the Snyders that he "would have given $1,000,000 for the estate" before the dammed waters started to rise, "would not have it at any price now." Meanwhile Union Electric Light & Power Co.'s new lake kept rising, last week reached high water mark...
...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...
...State. A lean six-footer, he is a graduate of Texas Agricultural & Mechanical College, was a lieutenant of infantry during the War but was kept from going overseas by powder-burned eyes. He has been a Ranger for four years, having commanded troopers in the border country. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum has selected him as the model for a proposed Ranger monument...
Another milestone in the artistic progress of Gutzon Borglum, carver of mountains, was marked last week by a clash with Calvin Coolidge and a hurried meeting of the trustees of the Mount Rushmore Memorial Association in Chicago's Union League Club...
Came last week the triumph of Gutzon. In recent months the political fortunes of Boss Randolph have shrivelled. Mayor-elect of Atlanta, new president of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, is James L. King, fervent Gutzonian. At the earnest request of the chastened members of the S. M. M. A. Borglum returned to Atlanta. Limping, leaning on two canes (result of a sprained ankle caused when a scaffolding on Mount Rushmore collapsed), he bubbled with new plans for Stone Mountain. The Lukeman Lee, Traveller the horse and his brick-water stains, all were to be blasted off. On the residue...