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Died. Leonard P. Lord, Baron Lambury of Northfield, 71, retired chairman of British Motor Corp., world's sixth largest automaker (behind Fiat), who rose from draftsman to managing director of Morris Motors, then in 1938 joined archrival Austin Motor Co., where he became chairman in 1945, and in 1951 engineered the Morris-Austin merger into B.M.C.; of a heart attack; in Gloucestershire...
Brooklyn-born Snaith was a high school dropout who later studied architecture at New York University and, after a brief tour as a Left Bank painter, began scratching a living as an architectural draftsman in Manhattan. After a while, he caught on as a designer of commercial interiors and in 1936 joined Loewy, one of industrial design's pioneers, to help fashion the cabins of TWA's Boeing Stratoliners. Snaith became a partner in 1944, managing partner in 1956, and president in 1961. Loewy, now 74, still retains half ownership of the company, but spends six months...
...Bravo to Boris Chaliapin for the cover drawing! Only a master draftsman such as he could produce this delightfully pleasing and interesting work...
...everything that I paint in this world," said the English mystic poet and draftsman, William Blake, "but everybody does not see alike." How vividly Blake's vision differed from that of ordinary mortals was illustrated once again last week when an English Blake enthusiast announced that he had unearthed from a castle in Ayrshire a notebook of Blake sketches that had not been seen publicly since...
...first airplane makers were less than impressed with the intense young engineer-pilot; they even refused his offer to work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...