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Gilbertson's success as an artist craftsman results partly from his diligence as a student. He first studied ceramics at Chicago's Art Institute and at Carnegie Tech. Later he got a master's degree at New York State's College of Ceramics. Not content with formal training, Gilbertson also sat at the feet of Pueblo Indian squaws to learn their pottery methods. Then he crossed the Pacific and apprenticed himself for two years to Kon-jiro Kawai, a ceramist much honored in Japan...
Died. Marion Luther Brittain, 86, longtime president of Georgia Institute of Technology (1922-44); in Atlanta. Under his administration, Georgia Tech became a topnotch engineering school; Brittain doubled its enrollment (now 3,458), built a $300,000 school of aeronautics, imported the late Coach W. A. ("Bill") Alexander to develop Georgia Tech's famed football teams...
...throwing pig iron around from 7 in the morning to 5:30 at night." Later, as a civilian draftsman for the Army Engineers, he found time to take International Correspondence School courses at night, crammed in enough drafting, engineering and math to pass the entrance exams to Carnegie Tech. Dutch worked his way through a year of college (and into the presidency of the freshman class) before he decided he was wasting his time...
...friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged student...
...bonds, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, and Tech have their largest book value investments in U.S. Governments, while Yale has its greatest amounts in public utilities and industrials...