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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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this. This is a two-way street and there is a need for ini-tiative from education also. So far, thatinitiative seems to be left largely tothe business school professors and afew others in economics. I dont think this is enough and itseems to me that it might provide awelcome change of pace — and serveunderstanding as well — if among thecelebrated novelists, poets, philoso-phers and public officials invited toshare their wisdom in campus semi-nars and symposia an occasional busi-nessman might appear. Given the rightman, it seems to me that exposing thestudents to an executive, who — per-haps to their surprise — turns out tobe no less ethically committed thanthey and no less idealistic, but whomust bear the consequences of hisactions, could prove a stimulating ex-perience indeed. Finally, it just seems to me that ourcountry has too many tasks yet un-done to permit us to tolerate barriersto understanding between two callingsthat must cooperate if we are to makea good future. D 17
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18 A peculiarly American phenomenon, industrial designers have influenced our living habits by improving the appearance and function of mass-produced products. One of the foremost designers gives his philosophy on Adapting Products to People During a career that has spanned nearly 40 years,Henry Dreyfuss has helped change the shape, color,and performance of countless products. As a consult-ant to Bell Telephone Laboratories since 1930, he hashad a hand in the design of almost every Bell tele-phone as well as related products. From his drawingboard have also come designs for television sets, air-plane interiors, cameras, bathroom fixtures, gasolineservice stations—even bowling alleys and flyswatters. One of the original big three of industrial design(Raymond Loewy and the late Walter Dorwin leaguewere the other pioneers in the field), Mr. Dreyfusshelped translate Louis Sullivans principle that formfollows function from architecture into industrialdesign. What he and other designers d

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