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3 unusual facts about George Stanley Gordon


George Stanley Gordon

In 1944, George Gordon enrolled and attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he majored in Psychology.

Mr. Gordon approached famed artist Alexander Calder and brought him to Braniff International Airways Chairman Harding Lawrence with a proposal for Calder to paint a Braniff jet airliner in what would become the world's first flying artwork.

As a result of his bringing American Modern Master Alexander Calder to Braniff Airways to paint a Braniff jet which would become the world's first flying mobile, he received the 25 million USD per year Braniff account, in 1972.



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