The One Ear Was No Accident -- Mariann Remke of East St. Louis, Ill., points out the puzzling feature of this famous marble head of Abraham Lincoln -- the missing left ear. Sightseers have wondered about it for the 46 years the work has been on display in the capitol rotunda, but Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor, wrote a committee of congress in 1908 that he planned it that way to emphasize the fact that "Lincoln's face was so much more developed on the right side." Robert Lincoln called the head. The most extraordinarily good portrait of my father I have ever seen. Miss Remke is secretary to Rep, Melvin Price (D-Ill). February 11, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).