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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...
...Sloan and Kettering are like Stagg in that neither has ever smoked, but not for his reason; they simply never got the habit. Boss Ket has a highball before dinner every night; Sloan toys politely with a drink in company, barely sips it. Where Stagg still lives on a fanatically sparse diet, Sloan and Kettering boast that they have no food fads, eat in moderation whatever is put before them...
...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...