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...Miami Beach, Charlie Sorensen called reporters to his winter home. Broad-shouldered, tanned, and looking fit from long afternoons on the sunny beach, he' issued a statement: "I am resigning from the Ford Motor Company after 39 years of continuous service. . . . I am compelled to take a much-needed rest...
Just what ailed him, he did not say. But it was soon plain that it had little to do with his health. Detroit motormen scoffed at the idea that he has lost any of his piston drive. The Detroit Free Press came out flatly: Sorensen was fired "while he was fishing in the Bahamas out of reach of the telephone." It then went on to say that spry old Henry Ford himself had swung the ax. This was as shocking to some motormen as if the wizard of Dearborn had slashed off his own right...
...Sorensen. Danish-born Sorensen came to the U.S. at the age of four. As a youth he worked as a patternmaker in his father's stove shop in Detroit, caught the eye of Henry Ford by turning out patterns no one else seemed able to make. He showed the same rule-of-thumb genius when he went to work for Ford, translating Ford's production ideas into complex patterns of men & machines spilling out cars. When Ford dreamed of an activated production line, Sorensen tied a rope to a chassis, pulled it through the plant...
Despite his backbreaking job of bossing all Ford production-and overseeing the building of Ford plants around the globe-Sorensen had plenty of time for deep-sea fishing, yachting (his cutter won the 1942 Detroit-Mackinac race), bridge and music. (He still plays the violin...
...Bennett. Henry Ford kept mum on who will replace Sorensen. Likeliest prospect: plumpish, soft-speaking Ray R. Rausch, 49, Ford director, production boss of the Rouge, and favorite of Harry Bennett. Just how well Rausch will measure up to Sorensen, productionwise, is a question that reconversion will probably answer. But with Sorensen out, there is no one in the empire now-outside of Henry and Henry II, Ford vice president-to challenge the absolute power of the one-time sailor, boxer and Ford bodyguard, Harry Bennett...