Changes of the Week

P: Glenn Luther Martin, 67, quietly bowed out of the-- aircraft company he founded 46 years ago. A pioneer planemaker, Martin, at the age of 23, built his first ship in an abandoned church and taught himself to fly it. As "The Flying Dude," he barnstormed the U.S., racked up a number of aviation firsts. His planemaking company turned out the first two-engine bomber, went on to make the famed Clippers, dive bombers and carrier planes. In World War II, Martin plants built the 6-26 medium bomber and the wide-ranging PBM patrol bombers. Falling upon hard times at war's end, Martin borrowed heavily from the RFC, gradually stepped aside while a new group of managers pulled his company out of the hole.

P:General Lewis A. (for Andrew) Pick, 63, longtime (35 years) Army engineer and famed builder of Burma's Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike"), was named vice chairman of the Georgia-Pacific Plywood Co. of Olympia, Wash. Author of the Pick-Sloan Plan for controlling the Missouri River (TIME, July 26, 1946), Pick put up hundreds of Army camps during the war, built 56 airfields in a record-shattering 15 months. As director of 1949's Operation Snowbound in the northwestern states, he cleared 115,000 miles of snow-piled roads, helped rescue 200,000 marooned people and 4,000,000 head of livestock.

P:Executive Vice President Herbert P.

(for Paul) Buetow, 55, of the Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., who came to M. M. & M. as an auditor in 1926, was elected its new president, succeeding Richard Carlton, who moves up to vice chairman of the executive committee.

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