Isamu Noguchi an artist to Rumely; though he preferred that Noguchi become a doctor, he acknowledged Noguchi's request and sent him to Connecticut to work as an apprentice to his friend Gutzon Borglum. Best known as the creator of Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Borglum was at the time working on the group called "Wars of America" for the city of Newark, New Jersey, a piece that includes forty-two figures and two equestrian sculptures. As one of Borglum's apprentices, Noguchi received little training as a sculptor; his tasks included arranging the horses and modeling for the monument as General Sherman. He did, however,
Isabel Paterson position was with a newspaper in Vancouver, British Columbia, where for two years she wrote drama reviews. In 1914, Paterson started submitting her first two novels, "The Magpie's Nest" and "The Shadow Riders," to publishers, without much success. It was not until 1916 that her second novel "The Shadow Riders" was accepted and published by John Lane Company, which also published "The Magpie's Nest" the following year in 1917. After World War I, she moved to New York City, where she worked for the sculptor Gutzon Borglum. He was creating statues for the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine and