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Like It Is. It was another 15 years before he was to distill all of these experiences into a running narrative capable of recollecting an era. Going from Memphis to New York to Saipan, Cloar skipped from cartooning to lithography to painting pinup girls on the fuselages of B-29s. Returning from the service, he got a Guggenheim fellowship for oil painting, was ready to throw in the towel when he discovered the technique of tempera. About the same time he settled in Memphis. Somehow, medium and milieu matched each other perfectly and Cloar, now 53, was soon the master...
Midst laurels stood: General Curtis LeMay, 58, U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff and World War II Bomber Command boss, whose B-29s helped devastate Japan, decorated with Japan's Order of the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun for his role in building up the country's postwar defenses; U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough, 60, given the New York City U.S.O.'s gold medal "as one who symbolizes the support of U.S.O. by major industries of America"; Vinoba Bhave, 69, Gandhian holy man whose pilgrimages across India have netted 5,000,000 acres of "land...
...Bottom. Of all Japan's industrial titans, none has brought his company so far and so fast since the war as Matsushita. Matsushita came out of the war with worn-out machinery-miraculously, the B-29s had failed to hit any of his plants-and exhausted, frightened workers. He was so badly in debt that for a time the future King of Taxpayers was billed as the King of Tax Delinquents...
Ironically, what paved the way for Japan's present architectural rebirth was defeat in World War II. The B-29s flattened Japanese cities, and the U.S. occupation knocked into limbo the oppressive remnants of autocracy and feudalism that had saddled Japan for centuries. And up from the ashes rose a new Japanese architecture that is attempting to blend modern technology with traditional Japanese needs and feeling for structure. Best of this new generation intent on making "something new of tradition" is Kenzo Tange, 46, who stands today at the crossroads where Japanese tradition and contemporary architecture meet...
...First step: he helped organize the Los Angeles engineering firm of Bechtel-McCone Corp., which he headed. Second step: he married Idaho-born Rosemary Cooper. During World War II, Bechtel-McCone operated an Army Air Forces modification center for B-24s and B-29s. At the same time, McCone became president and director of the California Shipbuilding Corp., and wearing two hats, launched himself into a 15-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced...