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Death by Culture. In Man on Horseback, one anonymous watercolorist was ignorant of the rules of perspective, but he was uninhibited in his use of color, filled all the available space with decorative plants and boughs. To capture the clipper ship's surge through the mountainous seas, another anonymous painter resorted to ritualistic formality, reminiscent of a Japanese print. Ironically, what spelled the death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost...
...only to members. The "club" tradition start ed in the early days of flying as a reward for the brave, pioneer passengers. The clubs charge no membership fees and have rather vague qualifications for admission. In the lingo of the lines' public-relations people, Pan American's Clipper Club, the biggest of them all, with 175,000 members, is for travelers "who have made a contribution to international understanding"; American's 100,000-strong Admirals Club is for people who have made "a contribution to aviation"; the 100,000 members of TWA's Ambassadors Club...
...armchairs, thick carpets, oil paintings, and lockers for private liquor supplies. The 150,000 members of United's 100,000-Mile Club have entry to "Red Carpet Rooms" at airports, get special luggage tags and receive a newsletter. Club members don't travel any faster, but a Clipper Club member may rise rapidly to the top of a Pan Am waiting list...
...Francisco has long been the U.S.'s gateway to the Orient. There, clipper ships embarked, coolies came to build the transcontinental railroad, and the largest Chinese colony in the New World was established. To embellish it, Avery Brundage, 78, president of both the U.S. and more recently the international Olympic committee and millionaire builder as well, last week opened a new wing containing his collection of Oriental art, which doubles the size of the M. H. de Young Museum...
...have to look far. Already in the market for a jumbo passenger jet was an old friend with whom Boeing had clone a lot of mutually profitable business in the past. Pan American Chairman Juan Trippe has been buying Boeing products for years, from the old Yankee Clipper to the immensely successful 707 and 727. Now, Boeing simply redesigned its rejected military transport jet to meet Trippe's commercial needs. Last week Trippe signed a $525 million contract-biggest single order in the history of commercial aviation-to buy 25 of Boeing's new 747s...