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...kind of hell. His Berlin streets were clogged with human monsters-fat, seminaked whores, bulbous businessmen, thin-lipped officers with monocles and Iron Crosses. Rape and murder fascinated him, and the death that hovers over sickbeds and alongside dozing old beggars. Though Grosz was an impeccable draftsman, he used fierce, childlike lines to transform the world into a nightmare of distortion. "I always like to be a little tortured," he said. "You like to laugh, but you also like to be hit. It's the schizophrenia of the German race...
Rathbone got his interest in oil from his oilman father. Born in Parkersburg, W. Va., he served a short hitch in the Army before graduating from Lehigh University ('21), then went to work as an engineering draftsman in the Baton Rouge refinery of Standard Oil of Louisiana, a Jersey affiliate. He was made refinery manager when he was only 32, so impressed headquarters that four years later he was moved up to president of the affiliate...
...above all a supreme draftsman whose impeccable lines and fragrant colors could bubble with humor or sing with sadness. A drunkard tipsily shows off his strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until...
...biggest oil company-and Royal Dutch/Shell's chief competitor-last week picked a new boss: Monroe Jackson Rathbone, 60, President of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) since 1954, he was named chief executive officer to replace retiring Eugene Holman, 65, chairman of the board. Rathbone started as a draftsman with Standard Oil of Louisiana in Baton Rouge in 1921. Working up to vice president in charge of manufacturing, he battled Huey Long over expansion of the oil industry in the state, became president of Louisiana Standard. Ten years later, after Louisiana Standard was merged into Esso, he became president...
...every desk was a precision-balanced draftsman's lamp; whole walls were covered with a fabric that would accept thumbtacks; through a first-of-its-kind telephone system, wives, friends and public-relations men could bypass the main switchboard, reach TIME people from anywhere in the U.S. by dialing LL6 and the appropriate extension. Interior decorators put up a fight for their geometrical inventions, but were mowed down by furniture-shifting editors with ideas of their own. Senior Editor A. T. Baker even brought along his old, scarred typing table. The new ones are built like wall shelves...