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...management theories. Unlike most corporate executives, he operates without specific goals in mind, preferring to concentrate on what he calls "constant aims," which amounts to doing "any job assigned to you better than the job has been done before." That is only one of his store of Dale Carnegie-ish homilies (another: "Don't forget to do today's chores or you won't be around tomorrow"). A bachelor until age 40, Hedrick is known for his love of golf and political conservatism. Strangely enough, neither he nor his aunt has learned to fly an airplane...
Even his much-publicized arrogance had its engaging aspect. He dropped names so often that floors threatened to collapse under their collective weight, but always with a pixie-ish wink that undermined the gravity of his statements and reduced them almost to an acknowledged selfparody. He bandied about words like power, influence, hiring and firing, always with himself on the business end of the proposition, yet his flamboyant style seemed to belie the cold calculation of his rhetoric...
Married. William Zeckendorf, 67, former $25-a-week building manager who wheeled and dealed his way into control of one of the world's largest real-estate empires (Webb & Knapp, Inc.), then watched the bottom fall out in 1965; and Alice Bache, 60-ish, widow of Securities Magnate Harold (Bache & Co.); both for the third time; in Manhattan...
Moby got heated up over the sight of Petkevich: Petkevich was very insulted and protested. "Ish male. Call me Ish male." Heimert poured water on Moby's heated Websterian brow. The water splashed on the ice, and Petkevich complained that pouring water on the ice only made the ice colder. And it was too cool already. In the end, Heimert had such difficulty getting his overeager Moby Zamboni out of the rink that he had to back...
...incredibly accurate portrait of the campaign travails that any hopeful for the electoral big-time must go through. However, it is a film that lacks both heart and an intellectual center of gravity. Written and produced by what must be serious, talented people, it comes off dilettante-ish...