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...handicap in the pole vault and high jump and, like every big man, he detests the 1,500-meter event that closes the two days of struggle. "The whole decathlon is ridiculous," says Johnson, "but the 1,500 meters is insanity." Why does he compete? Johnson gives the perfectionist's answer: "Because every time I walk out there, I think maybe I'll do a little better than the time before...
Detail & Dedication. Generally recognized as the world's best ocean racer, Skipper Mitchell is a personable perfectionist. He demands the same rare blend of qualities in his crew: men with the sharp will to win, but with temperaments that will not snap under the stress of a race. Finisterre's crew members, whose average age is close to 50, are completely interchangeable. A crack helmsman, Mitchell always handles the starts but thinks nothing of giving up the wheel if he feels his touch is off. Chick Larkin, a plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven...
Last week her world was on view for the first time in five years at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries. In those five years, her output has been small, for she is a perfectionist who is merciless with herself. But her new drawings and eleven paintings are proof again of why she has won not only fame but an affection that is rare in a highly charged profession that often seems at war with itself...
Today, Pepperidge Farm delivers 1,200,000 loaves of bread a week through 500 distributors and some 50,000 stores. Mrs. Rudkin still controls the bread as carefully as if it were baked in her own kitchen. A benevolent perfectionist, she has restored four old gristmills to get the stone-ground flour she favors. When she was faced with the problem of what to do with bread returned after two days in the store (the maximum allowed by the company), she used a typical housewife's solution: she made it into poultry stuffing, is now one of the biggest...
...campus beauty queen, which she was a few years ago at Minnesota's Carleton College. (She also graduated magna cum laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.) But her 100 students in four daily classes have no time for ogling her. Teacher De Long is a perfectionist; she conscientiously demands-and scrupulously grades-one theme per student each week. Result: she works 14 hours a day six days a week and most of Sunday. "This consumes me," she concedes...