Last week Kansas City's Art Institute opened the first class in industrial camouflage in the U. S. The free course attracted some 40 students: artists, sculptors, interior decorators, advertising designers, photographers, students of architecture and engineering. Lecturer: the Institute's director, husky, 30-year-old Keith Martin, onetime Harvard crewman and portrait painter. Purpose of the course: to explore ways & means of protecting vital industries, plants, stores from attack by air.
Beginning with a study of aerial photographs, Director Martin and his students will make scale models of buildings, take reconnaissance flights in TWA and Naval Reserve planes. From the No. 1 U....