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...Hold Your Hand, which has got the élite of Motor City moving and shaking, but not the hosts of the black-tie charity ball, William Clay Ford Jr. and his wife Lisa. In fact, the 48-year-old CEO of Ford Motor Co. is getting teased by his brother-in-law about his ineptitude on the dance floor. Turning to a reporter, Bill owns up to it. "You don't want to see that," the Ford scion says with a laugh. But he gets serious when the topic turns to his day job and what lies just around...
Bill Ford was never particularly comfortable with his country-club world, anyway. His father William Clay Ford, brother of longtime chairman Henry II, chaired Ford Motor's finance committee and bought the Detroit Lions. His mother Martha Parke Firestone (yes, that Firestone) was already an auto blueblood. Although educated at the élite institutions of Hotchkiss and Princeton, Bill was especially interested in labor and what working people do. His passions tended toward sports, American history and the environment. His parents hoped he would not grow up a snob, and his mother drove him across town to play hockey...
...practically a contact sport. "It was always kind of 'last man standing' stuff," says Sheila, his older sister by five years. "Being the only boy, Billy didn't want to get beaten by his dumb sister, and I certainly didn't want to get beaten by my dorky brother." Being into sports, says Sheila, who played on the tennis team at Yale, taught the young Fords a sense of meritocracy. "It didn't matter who you were," she says. "You either played well or you didn...
...dusk. "It's insane, isn't it?" he says. But despite Ford's light touch, there is a sense of destiny in the air these days at his company. "This is a great American story, and the last chapter has not yet been written," says Steven Hamp, Ford's brother-in-law and chief of staff. "The outcome matters not just to our company but to our country. It's time to get inspired, strap on our guns and kick some butt...
During his days as a student at Harvard, the youngest brother in the Kennedy clan garnered just one mention in The Crimson—a 1956 article about an inter-house debating event, according to an archive search...