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...accelerating treadmill. The first sign of his illness is increasing anxiety when the compulsive routine is disturbed, and he soon feels guilty because he is "not working well enough," starts to worry inordinately about details, stuffs his pockets with memos. He cannot take a real vacation. He is a perfectionist-and rigid perfectionism is viewed as a symptom of unconscious guilt. By now, the businessman has something to feel guilty about: he has neglected his family, he feels isolated from his fellow men (especially subordinates), and he gets in a panic because he feels unable to love...
This was no garden-variety variety show, for Fred Astaire is a professional perfectionist. He and his troupe sweated through seven weeks of rehearsal. Every step was planned; every word was carefully timed. And the end result was the essence of relaxation. Titian-haired young (23) Barrie Chase, Fred's new partner, fitted into his new routines as easily as Ginger Rogers or Cyd Charisse ever fitted into the old. Jonah Jones, a beaming barrel of a man, demonstrated that a trumpet can almost talk, especially if it has Astaire's tireless feet to talk back. Fred, singing...
Play to Win. Venturi, who has won $60,000 in just 21 months as a professional, is the best bet of all for the future. A gritty perfectionist of the Hogan stripe, he practices endless hours to correct his flaws. The first time that he finished out of the money, Ken went back to his hotel, practice-putted in his room for four hours, came back with twelve straight rounds under 69, won two tournaments. "There are basically two kinds of players," he says, "those who play to win and those who play to finish in the money...
...made by Elsa Maxwell on the show, Paar counterpunched fiercely, guessed-on the air-that Winchell's "high, hysterical voice" results from his "too-tight underwear." Often, Paar punches with less provocation -massive retaliation, as one of his former writers puts it-for no act of aggression. When Perfectionist Paar berates stagehands ("the tippytoe squad") for being slow, his writers for providing dull jokes, the studio audience for not laughing, it is all done in fun-but there is a serious, waspish edge in the laughter...
Back at work after recovering from a stroke, Sulzberger oversees the Times (1957 payroll: $33.3 million) from his small office, which was once a sitting room for the adjoining ballroom-sized office that Ochs used. A polite perfectionist, Sulzberger plans no major switches in the Times's tried formula. "We're always making minor changes-we never try to startle." Major future project is the erection of a modern new home for the paper on a four-block-long frontage on Manhattan's West Side. Already begun, its first building will be completed in 1959, will cost...