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...They don't know the difference between a sculptor and a tombstone-cutter," said Sculptor Borglum of the committeemen of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Impressed by the jibe, the committeemen held a session, last week, to find a successor to Borglum. They considered, one by one, the names of 100 famed sculptors, warily blackballed all whose reputations disclosed the least hint of tombstone-cutting, chose, at length, a Virginian sculptor, Augustus Lukeman...
...same afternoon. Henry and Edsel Ford witnessed the plane's departure. Mrs. Henry Ford was on hand to stow the first parcel of freight in the plane. "Ultimately," said Edsel Ford, "we hope to link our plants at Chicago, at St. Louis, at St. Paul, at Iron Mountain, Mich., with air transport lines...
...Babe, Paul Bunyan's blue-eyed ox, measured 42 axe-handles and a plug of chewing tobacco between the horns, no patriotic American will doubt the measurement for a second. When it is told how the great logger fought with Hels Helson, his foreman, on top of The Mountain That Stood On Its Head in the Dakota Country, until they trampled the mountain flat, leaving only the heaps of blood-darkened dust now called the Black Hills, none but a foreign reader will be reminded of Miinchausen, Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high...
...Cheyenne station. In Harry F. Sinclair's private car were Martin W. Littleton,* George C. Hoover, other lawyers "of counsel for the defense." They left behind them John W. Lacey, ex-Hoosier, ex-school-teacher, ex-Chief Justice of Wyoming, gallant 76-year-old leader of the Rocky Mountain Bar, also "of counsel for the defense." Next morning's Chicago express puffed Eastward with Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, ex-Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, other lawyers "of counsel for the prosecution." The greatest trial in Wyoming history had come to an end-the U. S. Government...
...your startled eye and dazed mind travel across blasted plains that frost the blood, stun the imagination; over mountain chains covered with age-old snows; across glacial rivers that race like maddened locomotives-barefooted, hungry-Proving That It Can Be Done No Matter What...