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Right now this department is keeping five people very busy. Chief Cartographer is Robert M. Chapin Jr., who started his career as an architect and still has the architect's gift of helping people to visualize a plan. On Chapin's staff are James Cutter, TIME'S specialist in chart-making, and Polly Sell, a fabric designer turned cartographer. The map department also has its own researchers-Margaret Quimby and "Murph" Williamson, who were picked on the recommendation of geography-conscious Clark University...
Among the tools that help Chapin make TIME'S maps so different are (1) the air brush-a sort of highpower atomizer with which he sprays paint over his maps in an infinite number of shadings that give mountains and valleys and plateaus and river beds their three-dimensional height and depth ... (2) two large floating globes -one political, one physical-which are suspended from the ceiling by pulleys and counterweights in such a way that they can be turned, lowered and photographed from any angle. Maps in the new global perspective so important in air and naval strategy...
...M.I.T.: g, Rosenberg; rfb, Coberdale; lhb, Loven; rh, McFaull; ch, Carpenter (Captain); lhb, Chapin; ro, La Valle, Engelman, Slawson, Krulee; ri, Heckel; cf, Abbott; li, Momose; lo, Ihade, Lednicky...
RICHARD N. CHAPIN...
...reading is ordinarily tedious, but your R. M. Chapin has the way of making a map come to life. . . . Our schools and universities could and should utilize this new, effective means of diagraming not merely the land, but its peoples' relation to it and to each other. TIME and Mr. Chapin have promulgated a definite advancement in the art of cartography...