A specialist in immensity, a modeler of monuments out of mountains, Sculptor Gutzon Borglum is doubtless pleased to reflect that his name will last as long as the hills on which he has carved his titanic conceptions. Not before Stone Mountain, Georgia (where he started the memorial now being finished by Augustus Lukeman) and Mt. Rushmore, South Dakota (where he is now engaged in excavating 420-ft. images of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt), crumble into dust, can Sculptor Borglum be entirely forgotten. It should require at least 500,000 years for this to happen. It became known last week that the...
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