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General Motors executives and Art Center Industrial Design Department gathered around a clay car model. Front (L-R): Joseph Thompson, Paul Gillan (eventually Executive Chief Designer), Ned Nickles (GM Buick), Edward Glowacke (Executive in charge, Automotive Design), Howard O'Leary (Director of Styling Section), John Coleman, George Jergenson, Tom Christiansen (Manager, Styling Staff Activities), Clare Mackichan (Executive in Charge Advanced Automotive Design and Engineering), and Bill Lang.

• circa 1950 (Creation)

Negative, Film, b&w, 4" x 5"

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GM titles and Howard O'Leary identification provided by James Hanks, of GM Media Archives, in April 2004.

• Art Center School (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Faculty

• 5353 West 3rd Street, Los Angeles (Calif.)

• Christiansen, George T. (Subject)
• Coleman, John (Subject)
• Gillan, Paul (Subject)
• Glowacke, Edward E. (Subject)
• Jergenson, George (Subject)
• Lang, Bill (Subject)
• Mackichan, Clare M. (Subject)
• Nickles, Ned (Subject)
• O'Leary, Howard (Subject)
• Thompson, Joseph (Subject)