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...stimulate U.S. medical research in Latin America, Journalist Charles Morrow Wilson has published an account of its diseases, called Ambassadors in White (Henry Holt; $3.50). The book contains biographies of U.S. yellow-fever "ambassadors" (Gorgas, Reed, Finlay, Noguchi) and strange tales of native doctors. Its descriptions of unfamiliar tropical diseases may be startling to U.S. readers. Some of them...
...sharpest repudiations of the New Order of Japan have come from India--see the reply of Tagore to Noguchi. For the past five years while we and England have been freely trading with Japan, India led by the All-India Congress has been boycotting Japanese goods in protest against the invasion of China. India has been less asleep than...
...years ago the Associated Press wanted to adorn the entrance to its new building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center with a large, impressive plaque in conventional bronze, offered a prize of $1,000 for the best design. Winner was Isamu Noguchi, muscular, California-born, Japanese-Irish sculptor, who submitted a small-scale plaster model depicting five symbolic figures (editor, reporter, photographer, teletype and telephoto operators) straining eyes and ears for news. With sudden inspiration and daring, A. P. decided to have its plaque in stainless steel...
...Sculptor Noguchi worked for about a year at a full-scale plaster model from which the steel plaque could be cast. The plaster model (17 by 22 ft.) took up his entire studio from floor to roof. Shipped to Boston in nine pieces, Noguchi's model provided General Alloys Co. with one of the biggest casting problems in its history. Because Noguchi's plaque, News, was 20 times larger than any sculptural casting made in stainless steel, foundry engineers had to tax their wits to meet the technical requirements. Into nine synthetic sand molds made from the plaster...
This week, with ceremony and speeches, Noguchi's big piece of steel, securely fitted in its niche in the A. P. Building's façade, was unveiled. Short, kewpie-faced Noguchi listened to the speeches, viewed his plaque, looked relieved. When it was all over he started for Hawaii, where Hawaiian Pineapple Co. (Dole pineapple) had offered him a three-month holiday...