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Patterns in pictures fascinated her, and her brooding shot of the partly finished crenelated dam at Fort Peck, Mont., graced the very first cover of LIFE in 1936. In a 40-year career with Time Inc. that started when she was hired as FORTUNE'S first photographer in 1929, Margaret Bourke-White pursued patterns everywhere, from sweat droplets on a South African miner's face more than a mile underground to the look of New York from a precarious perch atop a gargoyle on the Chrysler Building, 800 ft. above the street. By the time she died last...
...Boise, Idaho. Though he was only 27, hard-hustling Morrison talked himself into a partnership with 50-year-old Contractor Morris Knudsen in 1912. Their starting capital of $600 in cash was pyramided into a global $500 million-a-year building concern. Among Morrison's construction triumphs: Hoover Dam and portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway...
...distribution of energy from what will be the second largest power project in U.S. history. When completed, at least six huge coal-fired plants* will produce 14 million kilowatts of electricity-slightly less than the Tennessee Valley Authority and 41 times as much as Egypt's Aswan Dam...
Wharfing Yarns. Mostly, however, drifting gives Jones the chance to chart the indirections of his own ironic, eccentrically ballasted mind. It is the kind of mind that can easily mingle references to Henry James, Robbe-Grillet and Li-yü with equations on dam overflow, yarns about wharf characters and slices of local history. It is the kind of mind that can see The Story of O and Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain as two monastic classics and, like Mark Twain in Huckleberry Finn, revel in naming objects for their own sake. Jones' notes at the ends...
...having fun," says "Scoop" Jackson. "I'm speaking my mind." A huge picture of Seattle is spread across his wall, and there is Grand Coulee Dam at night, and his coffee table is a slice of a Western tree. He is an easy and sensible man. Tougher than his exterior. There is a sameness about Jackson that plagues him. For so long he has been the champion of the aircraft industry. "Mr. Boeing." Somehow he is that image of the perpetual proponent of military preparedness. There is something of mothballs about it: cold warrior in the year...