Word: donner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fred Donner, the new boss of General Motors, has seldom spoken for publication in his 32 years at G.M., has operated as a financial expert as quietly as he lived-in a modest, middle-class home in Port Washington, Long Island, the type he could buy with about four weeks' salary. Last week, in the first interview since he was named G.M. chairman, Donner spelled out his ideas to TIME Correspondent George Bookman with thin-lipped determination to let people know that he is far more than a mere book balancer, hopes to prove that he is as forceful...
...outset, Donner aimed to set me straight on what he considers wrong impressions spread about him in news articles since he was promoted to chairman: "I am not taciturn, I am not shy. I am not afraid of people, and I don't even own a slide rule. People build up an image of a financial man that has no relation to reality. It will take a little time to get across the true picture...
...paying Donner a sizable sum. Last year's total salary and bonus: $442,500. As board chairman he will get into the neighborhood of Harlow Curtice...
...Donner today plays a little golf, reads history, has few other interests. As can be said of most top U.S. executives, a co-worker said of him last week: "What he really thinks about all the time, day and night, is this corporation." Almost always, it is in financial terms. Meeting young G.M. executives for the first time, he is likely to ask afterwards: "How much are we paying that...
...Never Turn Away Business." Donner's teammate had a different career and also has a different personality. Ohio-born Jack Gordon, an easy-to-meet boss with a passion for mechanical perfection, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922, the same year resigned because ships were few and the Navy encouraged young ensigns to leave. Earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high...