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...still lively, curious and productive. His shoulders are stooped by his years, his neat salt-&-pepper suits hang loosely on his spare limbs. But his body is still tough, his bright eyes dart restlessly as the fingers of a machine. The Ford Motor Co. is, as ever, a one-man show...
Ford was always three jumps ahead of old OPM's red-tapeworm. While OPM was conferring and writing interoffice memos, Ford was proving his old theory of one-man control. He had no stockholders; he was more interested in making things than making money; all he had to do, to get a new plant built, was call in Production Boss Charles E. Sorensen and say: "All right, Charlie, let's go ahead...
...alumni in the armed services (among Virginia Military Institute's are 17 generals, two rear admirals), delegates saluted each other with five outstretched fingers, representing five of their old boys who had made good: General George Marshall (V.M.I.), General Douglas MacArthur (Texas M.I.), Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" in Bataan (Northwestern Academy), Pearl Harbor Air Commander Clarence Tinker (Wentworth), Captain Colin Kelly (Marion...
...playwriting. His flamboyant ego, his unreserved sentimentality and love for the people, have baffled the critics, who, at first, accused him of being a hoax. His ingenuous personality and his unashamed bravado puzzled the more mature and sophisticated onlookers. But now he is recognized as the leader of a one-man cult. He wants mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole. As he has pointed out, one does not stop Beethoven's Seventh...
Either the University expects Mr. Casner to be a one-man army on his own time, or else it isn't interested in running anything more than a clearing house where students who don't read the papers can see all the press releases in one neat pile...