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MARRIED. Charles Shipman Payson, 79, retired industrialist and majority stockholder of the New York Mets; and Virginia Kraft, 47, associate editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, who met him in 1962 when she wrote an article about his Florida hunting lodge; both for the second time; in Falmouth Foreside, Me. Payson's first wife, Heiress Joan Whitney Payson, died...
...continuing effort to try to shoehorn a few more people and ideas into Jimmy Carter's days, Scheduler Tim Kraft's shop photocopied the President's schedules and laid them out for study. The visual impact was stunning?ranks of names, events, ceremonies. No wonder, they muttered, the planned 55-hour week for Carter had grown to 71 hours and, if the truth about his private time were known, probably 80 or more...
This week came discouraging news. Carter's appointments secretary Tim Kraft disclosed that Carter had been getting up at 5:30 a.m. to cram in more study time, then going back to the office after supper to work on accumulated papers. He has divided the "users of the President's time" into nine categories (examples: Cabinet, political leaders, Congress, staff) to try to achieve more efficiency. But somebody who saw Carter said he looked tired. He talked only about the fun he was having. Another workaholic...
...Kraft, 35, appointments secretary. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, he ran Carter's successful campaigns in the crucial Iowa precinct caucuses and the Pennsylvania primary. He was also the transition staffs political coordinator...
...presidential appointments secretary because of reports that he had improperly collected unemployment benefits while running a Washington restaurant consulting firm. However, Schneiders was cleared last week by U.S. Attorney Earl J. Silbert of any wrongdoing and is expected to get another job. Meantime, Carter named Tim Kraft, 35, to handle his appointments. Kraft impressed his boss by engineering the key victories in the Iowa caucus and the Pennsylvania primary...