he had been awarded at the World’s Fair. Then he dropped in at the Players Club, of which Gutzon had long been a member and to which Korczak also belonged. There, as Korczak later recounted it, he fell into conversation with the ancient bartender Hans, who once had been valet to Edwin Booth, the great actor who had founded the Players Club: He asked me what I had been doing, and I said I’d been out in the Black Hills working with Gutzon Borglum. “Ahhh, yes! Mr. Borglum!” Hans said, “a most remarkable and talented man. “I remember when he first became a member here, many years ago. He was kind
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