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...exquisite 30-room penthouse on Park Avenue death came last week to Condé Nast. He was 68; an amiable host; as publisher of Vogue, House & Garden, et al., a superlative technician of the publishing world. For a generation he was the man from whom millions of American women got most of their ideas, directly or indirectly, about the desirable American standard of living...
...TIME is glad to pass on to all its technician-readers Dean Whitmore's urgent call...
...experts dug up more reasons why Henry J. Kaiser can't possibly build cargo planes, the big West Coast engineer found a sure-we'll-do-it partner. To his aid, on a 50-50 basis, came enormously wealthy, enormously successful Howard Hughes, speed flyer, technician, designer, builder, young man of vision, and a hardheaded businessman...
Tall (6 ft. 3), slim, shy Howard Robard Hughes is a rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
Scientist in Khaki. McNaughton is both a scientist and a soldier, and many Canadians today consider him their leading technician, patriot and planner. He is in this respect a rare citizen of his country and his time, a soldier whose sense of life and democracy is formed and rounded, a man of learning and conscience who knows for what he fights...