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Despite his backbreaking job of bossing all Ford production-and overseeing the building of Ford plants around the globe-Sorensen had plenty of time for deep-sea fishing, yachting (his cutter won the 1942 Detroit-Mackinac race), bridge and music. (He still plays the violin...
...Untamed. Ingoldsby, now a lieutenant commander, began his work as a lieutenant, ran smack into the stone wall of deep-sea tradition. Seafaring commanders balked at giving up their time-honored shore authority over their own crews. Enlisted sailors, used to the comradely patrols from their own ships, balked too. It took an order from Navy Secretary Frank Knox to give Ingoldsby and his crew real authority. Then Ingoldsby went to work, got his unit going in a matter of days...
Between appointments for his informal interviews and examinations, a man may do as he likes. There is every possible recreation facility, from chess to deep-sea fishing. Sports activities are there if he wants them, but he can take them or leave them, just as he likes. For those too taut to ease off in a couple of weeks, the Center has special camps for solid rest...
...ponderous Fred Riebel Jr., 61, onetime football guard (Purdue), bicyclist, weightlifter. Riebel had spent an engineering career at Westinghouse, the Hamilton-Beach division of Scovill Manufacturing Co., and Toledo's Air-Way Electric Appliance Corp. A vice president, he retired in 1936 to devote all his time to deep-sea fishing...
Hawaiian Swede. The man back of this triumph of paternalism over disease is big, redheaded, Swedish-born Dr. Nils Paul Larsen, Medical Director of Queens Hospital in Honolulu, allergist, artist, mountain climber and deep-sea diver (until heart trouble recently put a stop to it). Now 53, he went to Hawaii in 1921 as head of the hospital, a job he kept until his retirement last year. In the '20s the high infant-mortality rate on the plantations shocked him, but he thought the plantations potentially "the finest biological test tubes in the world." He talked the Association directors...