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Right now this department is keeping five people very busy. Chief Cartographer is Robert M. Chapin Jr., who started his career as an architect and still has the architect's gift of helping people to visualize a plan. On Chapin's staff are James Cutter, TIME'S specialist in chart-making, and Polly Sell, a fabric designer turned cartographer. The map department also has its own researchers-Margaret Quimby and "Murph" Williamson, who were picked on the recommendation of geography-conscious Clark University...
Married. Lieut, (j. g.) Anthony B. Akers, 28, one of the PT-boat expendables of the Bataan campaign; and Jane Pope, 24, daughter of the late Architect John Russell Pope; in Manhattan...
...author of this diagnosis is Architect Jose Luis Sert (nephew of famed Spanish muralist Jose Maria Sert), who speaks the view of the International Congresses for Modern Architecture (C.I.A.M.*). To their title question, Can Our Cities Survive? (Harvard University Press; $5), Mr. Sert and his group answer: Not unless they are replanned; considering the shape modern cities are in, the only moot point is whether they will die lingeringly of internal maladies or violently by bombing...
Panic in Vichy. Fright seemed plainest of all among the Vichy cabal of royalists, fascists and opportunists. They had placed their bets on Adolf Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders...
This plan, which a London Ministry of Works official describes as "an entirely unofficial and imaginative effort," would require from 25 to 100 years to accomplish. Optimistic cockneys say it would be feasible "if Hitler had done a bit more damage." Asked the cost, Architect Lutyens replied airily: "Oh, just about what two days of war cost!" (approx. $100,000,000). Said a Royal Academy committeeman: "If you add another nought, it would be about right...