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Died. Walter Dorwin Teague, 76, dean of American industrial designers and apostle of functionalism, who reshaped thousands of machine-age products ranging from the exterior of cameras ("Baby Brownie") and cars (Marmon 16) to the interior of jet planes (Boeing 707), but who preferred to live in a 250-year-old house furnished in French Provincial and Early American; of a heart attack; in Flemington...
Made up by Jerome S. Bruner, visiting lecturer on Psychology, and Professor Dorwin P. Cartwright of the M.I.T. Psychology department, both of whom spent the war in Washington doing public opinion work for the Government, the 34-question poll will examine public interest in the recent election and also attempt to ascertain the affects of various kinds of campaign publicity on election outcomes...
...Some other leading industrial designers noted for work on U.S. railroads: Henry Dreyfuss, who designs for the New York Central; Walter Dorwin Teague, who has done de luxe coaches for the New York, New Haven & Hartford; Paul Cret, who designs interiors for stainless-steel trains of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing...
...Thousand Times Neigh was conceived by the designer of the Ford exhibit, Walter Dorwin Teague, who had no difficulty selling it to Edsel Ford. The ballet was written-it has songs and dialogue-by Edward Mabley of the Teague organization, who never once forgot that two men impersonating a horse are always good for a laugh. A Thousand Times Neigh is a Ford's-eye-view of the problems of Dobbin, a $1,000 steed of cloth and leather, with movable eyes, ears, lips, jaws, tail. Horse-players: Vladimir Vassilieff, Kari Karnikovski. From 1903 to the present, Dobbin foots...
Pyrex ovenware, boilers, mimeograph machines. His car-body designs for the Marmon 16 in 1930 set a whole new style in automobile streamlining. Today, a consultant on everything from railroad coaches to pickle bottles, Walter Dorwin Teague is one of the half-dozen crack U. S. industrial designers. In his Clinton, N. J. farmhouse, Designer Teague gives himself a change of pace with early-American furniture...