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...stranger to Eisenhower Washington, Johnson is an old soapsuds acquaintance of his new boss, met Procter & Gamble's McElroy when McElroy approached G.E. to learn about possible markets for his new detergent products. Like McElroy, Johnson has a special flair for organization. He was an architect of the 1951 decentralization plan under which G.E.'s 280,000 employees and 95 separate divisions were spread under 49 managers. He also planned the corporation's biggest venture into consolidation, a 942-acre appliance-making center at Louisville...
...middle of it without bearings, the reader at first sees only blurred shapes. An undertaker, in the first of a series of long interior monologues, recognizes Stella, Machek's beautiful youngest daughter. With guilt and confusion, he recalls a day ten months before when Stella, a stranger, climbed in beside him as his empty hearse idled at a stop light, said "Take me to your place.'' Slowly some details emerge: he drove her from the Polish quarter of their New Jersey factory town to a cheap Manhattan hotel, later fled, left her to stare vacantly...
...night after night over the winding West Virginia roads in his 1957 Chevrolet to search for talent at high school games. Ohio-born Coach Schaus uses a recruiting argument that seems to work: he went out of his state to play ball, he explains, and now is almost a stranger back home. The moral: stay home and stay known...
...three occupants of the room, James Lawrence, III '58 and Daniel E. Singer '58, were asleep in the ad-joining room when the arrest was made. They awakened to discover four policemen in their living room talking to a man the police identified as a burglar. The stranger at this point claimed he had been invited up by a third roommate, who was absent. When located, George D. Krumbhaar, Jr. '58, the absent roommate, disclaimed any knowledge of the visitor...
...always tried to trim himself down to the rest of the boys by insisting he was only 6 ft. n in. tall. Now he can even poke fun at his "little brother" Wilbert, who is only 6 ft. 5 in. "Nothing to him," says Wilt. When a stranger accosts him and says, "Wilt, can I ask you a question?", The Stilt proudly interrupts. "That's right," he says. "Over seven feet." His opponents insist he is three feet taller than that...