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...Harmon S. Eberhard, 54, a brawny, balding engineer, was elected president of the Caterpillar Tractor Co. Eberhard joined Holt Manufacturing Co. (later merged into Caterpillar) at 16 as a draftsman, helped develop the Army's self-propelled guns, became Caterpillar's chief engineer. He takes over from Louis B. Neumiller, who was named board chairman upon the retirement of Harry H. Fair, prime mover in Caterpillar's formation...
...significant footnote to the Hiss-Chambers case. Previously, two members of the Washington Communist ring, Nathaniel Weyl and Julian Wadleigh, had corroborated portions of Chambers' accounts of Communist underground activity. Last week, after receiving a subpoena from McCarthy to appear at the Albany hearing, a 44-year-old draftsman named Felix A. Inslerman became-the third...
...landed on the moon, and none is likely to for a long time. This dull fact does not keep interplanetary enthusiasts from planning what they will do when they get there. In the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Draftsman Paul L. Sowerby solemnly furrows his brow about lunar construction methods. In this small field alone* he finds enough practical difficulties to make the glittering lunar cities of the space romancers look like hashish visions...
...most men as nobodies-saluted one of his few friends. Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was, in fact, neither Turk nor Jew, but a Swiss Lutheran; Blake brandished the terms in honor of his friend's rebellious temperament and alien air. Fuseli's style as a draftsman and painter strikingly resembled that of the great Blake. As a result, his reputation has languished in the shadow of his friend's genius. Last week Manhattan's Morgan Library had on view the first comprehensive Fuseli show ever held...
...Frank Abrams, 64, who worked his way up from a $75-a-month job as a draftsman for the Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) to the $1500,000-a-year board chairmanship, announced his retirement. To avoid being "just another guy on the street," Abrams laid plans to keep busy by: 1) taking an assignment with the new Hoover Commission to streamline federal civil service. 2) helping to raise funds for colleges (he founded the Council for Financial Aid to Education...