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Fact is, Fairchild planes were simply an outgrowth of the original camera business founded by Sherman Mills Fairchild in 1921. Son of the first president of International Business Machines, Sherman Fairchild had the money and the talent to indulge his precocious interest in photography. Ordered to Arizona for his health after a futile attempt to get into the Army during the War, he set out to improve the crude cameras then used in aerial photography. Within a few years he had developed a precision instrument as far removed from the ordinary camera as a micrometer from a tape measure...
...into Aviation Corp. when that big holding company was formed in 1929. At the end of two years Mr. Fairchild had had enough of the boomtime merger, arranged for his company to regain its independence. Since then he has collected for Fairchild a notable roster of executive and engineering talent, including such names as Col. John H. Jouett, famed "father of the Chinese air force"; James S. Ogsbury, a high-powered onetime International Business Machine executive; Col. Virginius Evans Clark, successively chief aeronautics engineer to the U. S. Army, to General Motors Corp., to Consolidated Aircraft Corp. to Aviation Corp...
...Radcliffe Idler Club, the dramatic club of the college, in order to get men to fill the male roles. In past years they have been able only to secure second-rate artists for their play, but this year a determined effort is being made to find men of real talent...
Frost, Oliver Herford. By the time Edward S. Martin was well enough to resume contributing editorials in 1885, Life had lined up such impressive literary talent as John Kendrick Bangs, James Whitcomb Riley, Brander Matthews...
Last (but not least) on the Bureau's circular come the jazz bands. Craig Huntting and his Orchestra "combine musical proficiency, an unexcelled library, an individuality of style, an expressiveness of interpretation and a rhythmic 'lift'", Jim Fuld's Promenaders are "a well-trained undergraduate dance orchestra with talent, enthusiasm, and wide experience", while Jack Ayer and the Gold Coast Orchestra "emphasize the use of special arrangements for more distinguished interpretations...