Word: draftsman
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...traditionally made by European craftsmen, who have practiced the art for years, and in his field Howard Head, 45, is a Johnny-come-lately. The first time Head, a Harvard graduate ('36), went skiing was in 1946. He liked the sport but not the skis. An aircraft draftsman, Head decided that light and strong aluminum should be as good for skis as for planes. He proved his point by becoming the first manufacturer to sell metal skis in quantity. Head announced that his Baltimore-based Head Ski Co. Inc. this season will ship a record 42,000 pairs...
...Seattle, he shared the indignities common to Japanese Americans. But he had a burning desire, inspired by an architect uncle, to become an architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April 16, 1956), and later...
Before the court was the case of William L. Greene, who lost his $18,000-a-year job as an aeronautical engineer and was reduced to working as a $4,700-a-year draftsman when the Navy revoked his security clearance in 1953. The Navy charged association with Communists and Communist-fronters in 1943-47. Greene denied the charges and contended that Security Board procedures violated his constitutional rights. In keeping with its longtime practice of sidestepping constitutional questions whenever possible, the court decided the case on the narrower ground of authorization. But in an opinion shared by Associate Justices...
...Rabbit Trap (Canon; United Artists). Once upon a time there was a company man (Ernest Borgnine). He worked as a draftsman for a construction outfit, and the fellows all called him "Steady Eddie" because he was never late, never sick, never idle, never got a raise. One year the boss (David Brian) got bighearted and let him take a two-week vacation with pay. So Eddie piled the wife and kid in his '53 Chevy and headed for a place called Deep Springs, where there were some nice cabins, not too expensive. But after a couple of days...
During his short career as commercial artist in fin de si*ecle England, Aubrey Beardsley scored an outstanding success. Unlike most illustrators, he attempted more than a mere commercial art, and he had enough technical equipment to become a significant draftsman of the nineteenth century...