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Principal organizer and president of I.I.I, is William J. Sampson Jr., 51, head of the American Welding & Manufacturing Co. of Warren, Ohio. Big (282 Ibs.), bluff Bill Sampson had his own idea of how a free-enterprise system should be presented. He thought the job should be done locally, that national ad campaigns by big trade and lobbying groups were too general to be effective. "Besides," says he, "there's a feeling that anything that the National Association of Manufacturers or the American Iron & Steel Institute do has the kiss of death...
I.I.I., whose membership now includes 87 companies, has no way of measuring results. But unions, which resent the N.A.M. type of salesmanship, have yet to criticize I.I.I. And, since I.I.I.'s program got started, President Sampson has noticed that his own employees work harder. Says he: "They know that in a sense it's their business, not only the business of a fat guy in the front office...
...Sampson Delighted...
Fertility Up. And there were the witnesses. Said Merrill Sampson of Lakeville, director of the State Duck Growers' Association: "Brown's master cell upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell...
...Valpey, the leading candidate for the job as of two weeks ago, arrived at Logan International Airport this morning and apparently spent most of the day with Bingham and his old friend, Bill Barclay, former freshman football coach at Michigan and current Crimson basketball coach. H.A.A. publicity director Arthur Sampson thought he had been flown in from Detroit "to meet the members of the Committee," but said Bingham had given him nothing to publicize. He was unaware of the impending Watson release...