Word: kodaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walter Dorwin Teague has, besides Steuben, Eastman Kodak, Taylor Instrument, National Radiator, A. B. Dick among his clients. An apostle of functionalism in design, Mr. Teague abhors in manner as well as theory esoteric aspects of art. Explained he last week: "The industrial designer . . . does not pluck his designs out of the air, or out of his own soul. His designs are always latent in the things he deals with. . . . He asks himself, what is this thing for? What is it supposed to do? What is it made of? How is it made? . . . If he is a good designer...
...that Culture is a hot-house growth and can be fertilized with filthy lucre. When a tycoon turns angel and takes under his wing the perishable eggs of Art, many an ugly duckling, many a dubious chick, come squawking in to get a share of the pickings. The late Kodak tycoon, George Eastman, brooded to such good purpose that he hatched some fine, large eggs. In The Fault of Angels Author Horgan tells a story whose background is the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizens of that place will immediately recognize such thinly-disguised characters as Tycoon...
...cigars, newspapers, cosmetics, haircuts. Among those who lined up at the cashier's window to get their scrip: onetime Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime Speaker of the House Frederick Huntington Gillett, Banker Henry G. Lapham of Boston, Edward Bausch (& Lomb), President William G, Stuber of Eastman Kodak Co., onetime President Charles Doran of Sperry Gyroscope Co., John Hays Hammond, Packer Edward A. Cudahy Jr., Princess Erik of Denmark, Banker Albert E. Nettleton, Louis B. Kuppenheimer (clothes), Dr. Arthur Dean Bevan (Chicago's Rush Medical College), Sir Montagu 6 Lady Allan of Montreal...
...reference to small cameras of those days-we used, at the French gunnery school at Cazeaux a camera that resembled, in outward appearance, a Lewis machine gun. This "camera gun" was mounted parallel to axis of the airplane and was charged with a small film roll-like an ordinary Kodak. A fresh film was moved into position by pulling a lever. When in mock combat, the student tried to get his sights on his opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These...
...Among them: Presidents William G. Stuber (Eastman Kodak), Jeremiah G. Hickey (Hickey-Freeman Clothes), John M. Davis (D. L. & W. R. R.), Edward Eugene Loomis (Lehigh Valley...