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Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619), a butcher's son, was the eldest and founder of the Carracci's Academy, by preference specialized in religious subjects. Agostino (1557-1602), trained first as a goldsmith, was witty, handsome and erudite. A superb draftsman, he excelled in etching, and his paintings of broad-bottomed nudes are among the Carracci's best...
...Arthur Burton Goetze (pronounced gets), 55, became president of Western Electric, succeeding Frederick R. Kappel, American Telephone & Telegraph's new president (TIME, Oct. 1). Chicago-born Goetze joined Western Electric in 1917 as a draftsman, took night courses in electrical engineering. By 1952 he moved up to vice president of Western Electric, after a three-year stint as vice president with the Chesapeake & Potomac and the Ohio Bell Telephone companies. CJ Orville Simpson Carpenter, 57, was elected president of the Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., one of the biggest U.S. natural-gas pipeline companies (gross annual revenue...
...bigger reason is the nation's apparently unshakable faith in a future of total employment, total production and total consumption. In Seattle, Gordon L. MacDonald, 30, a $6,000-a-year draftsman, has bought a car and all his appliances and furniture on credit, in addition to paying $59 a month on a three-bedroom home, says that he has no idea how much interest he is paying or when he will be out of debt. Shrugs MacDonald: "I'm not too worried about it. I expect my income to increase steadily through the years...
...jump ship. Skipper Carlin ran advance ads in Australian newspapers for a replacement. All he wanted was a strong swimmer who was also a motor mechanic and a radio maintenance man and had enough money to repatriate himself from anywhere enroute. He got a 23-year-old Perth draftsman named Barry Hanley who knew something about small boats...
Fare to Australia. Unfortunately the Half Safe's timetable is off. Carlin and Hanley arrived in Japan too late to try a Pacific crossing this year. Hanley intends to spend the winter working as a draftsman; Carlin will try for a job as a mechanic and English teacher. In the spring they will head out. With the end of the long trip in sight, Ben Carlin, 44, admits he would never try it again. But he knows why he did it this once...