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Holden Withington, 94, last of the six B-52 designers

By Douglas Martin

 |  New York Times  

  December 21, 2011

On a Friday in 1948, six aeronautical designers from the Boeing Co. holed up in a hotel suite in Dayton, Ohio. They stayed put until Monday morning, except for the one who left to visit a hobby shop and returned with balsa wood, glue, carving tools, and silver paint.

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