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SUNDAY NEWS, NOVEMBER 23, 1967 Cll 0 set vv fir XV ll NEWS photo by Fred Morgan except for a strip of map pattern, thi i how the NEWS world looked about year ago as artist assistant Leo Rockow checked globe's surface. NEWS photo bv Ed art; Cartographic expert Richard Harrison checks the NEWS globe for accuracy whil associate George Colbert (seated) consults U.S. agency charts. shown as an ice-blue ring; the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn in burnt orange. The international dateline in midnight blue to distinguish it from tha Prime Meridian which it adjoins.

Details of Antarctica or the South Polar Region are reverse printed on the globe and reflected correctly tip-wards to viewers bv a mirror. By ARTHUR NORTH IT'S A BIG, bright, beautiful world our new 12-ft. revolving globe on view today in the lobby of THE News Building, following the first complete remodeling in its 37-year history. The facelifting operation took 61 weeks. Eight men working full or part-time logged an impressive project total of three years and six days of working man hours.

The new globe features: A total of 3473 designations which include 189 countries 993 land and water features 2,291 cities It boasts two new information dimensions: Topographic renderings of tha earth's surface and Bathymetric (ocean depth) tints. The world's gradient land profiles are depicted in their respective political contexts with emphasis on the rising and falling of the earth's surface. They're so deftly etched passersby mistake them for clay molds rather than brush art work. Two aspects of this new feature are unique. Through the use of compatible paints and sealants, the earth's basic cartographic data has been permanently fixed on the new globe.

Superimposed on this are political and cultural details susceptible to change with history's ebb and flow. Such relatively accidental details as country names and boundaries may be altered on the new globe when and as often as necessary without disturbing unchanging cartographic verities. Additionally, the topography has been rendered with consistent light and shade effects throughout a bit of artistic sleight-of-hand that bolsters the three-dimensional qualities of the topography as the globe revolves before the viewer. Ocean depths are shown in three graduations: 0-100 fathoms (light blue), 100 to 2,000 fathoms (intermediate blue) and depths in excess of 2,000 fathoms (dark blue). A fathom is the nautical equivalent of six feet.

Since its 1930 installation, the cast aluminum sphere, largest of its kind in the world twice the size of a tall man has dominated The News lobby from the brass-railed recesses of a lighted glass well six feet lower than the lobby's marble floor. The dramatic setting, further highlighted by a black marble cupola towering two stories into the building overhead, was inspired by a visit to Les In-valides. Napoleon's Paris tomb, by The News founder-publisher (and globe fancier) Capt. Joseph Mediil Patterson. F.

M. Flynn, president and publisher of The News, then assistant to the business manager, helped plan and guide the new lobby attraction to completion. Space Problem The big problem then was getting the globe's twin-hemispheres through the lobby doors unscathed. After the contractor cracked two globe halves bringing them he began despairing of the project as a profitable venture should he crack a third half shell. (He didn't.) Years later, during construction of an 18-story addition to The News Building, publisher Flynn saw an opportunity to enhance ti.e globus showcasing and conceived it as it appears today, the center of a much widened lobby esplanade.

For almost four decades and even before The News Building achieved its "Landmark of New York" designation for originality of skyscraper design in 1957 the globe has exerted sightseer pull on millions of school children, tourists and UN visitors as it impertub-ably completes one revolution every ten minutes, riding a motor-driven axis tilted like the earth's, True North at Now the old spellbinder has taken on added lustre. The cartography has been updated, scaled at 55 miles to tha inch, rendered with diamond-cutter accuracy and eye-pleasing artistic finesse. Depicted on the 452 square feet of the globe's surface are: Mountain peaks designated by small white triangles in their exact location. Many are named; elevation is given. Mountain ranges, identified by name; their size and character clearly visible.

Permanent snow fields in their true shapes, colored light blue. "Waterfalls indicated by two short parallel lines across their streams. Dams marked by small trapezoid shapes; the latter's wide side on tha dam's upstream side. Canals represented by a blue line with a series of attached ts on one side. Rivers and lakes colored blue; the larger and most important ones are named.

Dry rivers shown with dashe3 of blue and dry lakes in land colors resembling flat depressions. Salt flats rendered in very light yellow. Reefs (mostly around small islands in the South Pacific) as small white areas shaped like quarter moons. Marble-tough acrylic paints were used in repainting the globe with eight basic pastel shades denoting political divisions. Country boundaries are emphasized by dark bands of the same political shading and brown dash lines except where a river or other body of water forms the natural boundary.

Physical features are labeled in green or white. Three distinct type faces (Optima Fold, Century Medium and Caligraphic Script) are used in nine different sizes. Country names are maroon colored; cities black. The latter are pinpointed by small black circles. Gold-filled stars designate country capitals.

State capitah appear as open gold stars. A carefully produced tonal variation between tha country coloring and the maroon country names give the latter a kind of airy, overlay quality which contributes t3 the globe's aesthetic design and its legibility as a communications instrument. The globe's color scheme is complemented by gold latitude and longituda lines caging tha entire sphere. For climatic emphasis, the Arctic Circle is SHSaSSSHSSSSMasaBSSaHSSHSBBSgnpSSSSHSEBHBSHBHSBSS BASICALLY, the new is the de-sign handiwork of three men. Franklyn Hansen, creative direct of Hammond, prime contractor, served as art director and chief cartographic artist on the project.

"With him worked Hammond editor Robert Grigg and Richard Edes Harrison, widely recognized independent cartographic expert who acted as special consultant to The News. Harrison took 2f maps published by tha U. S. Aeronautical Chart and Information Center, covering the entira world on a uniform 1 scale. From these he selected particulars proper to a 12-ft.

globe. Grigg redrew this data on tracing paper in individual graticles. (They're the square-looking spaces you see on a globe and are formed by two parallels of latititude 10 high and two meridian of longitude 15" wide.) Piece Work Some 210 of these graticles, in patterns ranging from to 18 inches wide, were then fitted together on the by Grigg like so many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and their contents copied onto the globe. "It's odd," Harrison notes, "that producers of oversized globes almost invariably fail to take advantage of tha extensive surfaces they have to work on and so wind up with no more information than you'd find on a 12-inch household globe. On the new News gbbs, we've reversed this trend.

More importantly, we have shorelines, drainage and other features delineated with far greater accuracy and detail than usual on a globe of this size." Hansen, whose global art work Is a kind of one-man show destined remain on permanent exhibit for years, says simply: "This is the finest globa of its kind." Backstopping Hansen, Grigg and Harrison were the latter's associate, George Colbert, two artist assistants, Leo Rackow and William Ferguson, and letterer Abraham Switkin. News business manager Val Palmer directed the global overhaul. This writer served as project supervisor in conjunction with Ralph E. Neaie, manager of corporate real estate, meteorologist J. Henry Weber, art director Worth Briggs and editorial map artist Ed Sundberg.

NEWS photj bv Mel Flnkelstein Globe artist Franklyn Hansen paints a finishing touch on the state of Arkansas. Rivers, lakes, canals and dam are depicted on NEWS globe..