Word: draftsman
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...some years Malcolm Jameson, one-time chief draftsman in the U. S. Navy, felt that his present occupation of insurance salesman did not give him a full emotional outlet. At loss for a hobby, he purchased a large wooden salad bowl, heated the tip of an icepick red hot and traced on the bowl a map which he tastefully tinted with Mercurochrome. A group of Mr. Jameson's salad bowls, which he prefers to call "Segmaps," were on view in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace last week, priced...
...partner in the potent New York Stock Exchange firm of E. A. Pierce & Co. To succeed him in Boeing, the stockholders, no one of whom now owns more than 10% of the stock, chose shy Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, 44, who entered the plant in 1917 as a draftsman...
...fettle. Said he: "The court perceives the effect of that fine frenzy in composition which on one midsummer's night the Duke of Athens advanced as the genesis of poetry. In the rounded periods of these instruments there is proof, too, of an internal emotion which possessed the draftsman and which at the time of composition must have disinclined him to any prosaic inquiry as to what the language really meant." Then he told the confused Philadelphia lawyer that the provisions of the will set up separate trusts...
...onetime farmer and garage mechanic, Leslie C. Peltier is now a commercial draftsman by day. Eighteen years ago, after reading a book called The Friendly Stars, he made his first telescope, a puny two-incher. Both Princeton and Harvard have now lent him larger instruments. He has observed some 47,000 heavenly bodies, is the sole discoverer of two previous comets, co-discoverer of three others. In 1933 Nova Ophiuchi, a variable star which had not flared up since 1898, flared up again. Peltier was the first to see the outburst. Harvard passed on word of it to observatories...
...Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan's work than his life. As it happened, both were equally full of tragedy, triumph and despair. Son of an Irish dancing master, Louis Sullivan, at 16, was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At 17 he was a draftsman in the office of one of the hundreds of fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago fire. At 18 he had passed, after six weeks' cramming, the rigorous entrance examinations of L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris...