Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Plan Ahead. The one common denominator that sociologists, psychiatrists, gerontologists and geriatricians see in all the actively productive oldsters of this or any other time in history is a keen continuing interest in some activity, which carries with it a revitalizing sense of participation in life. This may be, Sloan fashion, a continuation of earlier activity, but with a switch from administration to policy, or a new career in public service. It may be that a former avocation can be turned into a vocation. But "make-work" hobbies will not do. The oldster, like the human being...
...differ from Stagg on nearly all life's key issues are, aptly, two who have amassed huge fortunes from the auto industry-which, say some alarmists, is ruining the nation's health by eliminating the normal healthy exercise of walking. Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets...
...with his results. Under him, G.M. logged its most profitable years, now has its largest share ever (54%) of the auto market. With Curtice at the mandatory retirement age (65), the board seized the chance to return to the old team operation of president and chairman of Alfred P. Sloan...
Despite 32 years of service with G.M., Donner is a man almost no one knows. He has made neither speeches nor cars. All he knows about the corporation-and it is a great deal-he learned not in the shops, like Curtice, Wilson, William S. Knudsen and Sloan, but from executive meetings, balance sheets and reports...
...presented in films belongs to Dr. Thomas Jones of the National Science Foundation, who conceived the project as a Brussels Fair exhibit. But "the U.S. Government is very poor," Chemist Eyring observes pointedly, and there was no federal financing to be had. Eventually 83-year-old Philanthropist Alfred P. Sloan Jr. heard of Jones's plan, and although the fair deadline had passed, agreed to development and production through his Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Ford Foundation is paying for prints and distribution...