Coolidge twinkled, took a thoughtful puff on his cigar, and said, “Well … Y’know, Mr. Bellamy, that’s about as close t’ Mr. Borglum as I care t’ be.” Calvin Coolidge died in 1933. So now, in 1934, Borglum felt free to take up the Entablature matter again and to use a different approach to it. His idea now was to hold a national contest offering substantial prizes to those who produced the best Entablature manuscripts, with the grand winner enjoying the honor of seeing his or her composition carved for all eternity in Rushmore’s granite. This, Borglum figured, ought to produce an outstanding
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