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...operations-can make swift, sure policy decisions. International Shoe Co., the largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, has a 100% inside board to run its highly technical business; the U.S. petroleum industry also leans to inside boards, whose members know all the tricks and pitfalls of their risky business. Says Harmon Whittington, president of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton broker and a firm with a tightly knit inside board: "I don't think outsiders pay too much attention to the company's business; some go to directors' meetings only once or twice a year...
...Tokyo, where he awaits a Japanese trial for manslaughter, Army Specialist Third Class William Girard, center of a celebrated legal case, sprang himself from Camp Whittington for three hours of AWOL bottling in a Japanese saloon, was placed back under 24-hr, guard when he showed up at camp again...
...population increase, which now averages about 250,000 annually-from 70,000 to 80,000 through Tokyo births alone, and a colossal 180,000 annually through immigration from the countryside. As a symbol of power and riches, Tokyo has now become to plain Japanese what London was to Dick Whittington, or New York to Horatio Alger's boys...
Married. William S. Girard, 21, gawky U.S. Army Specialist Third Class, who set off an international legal battle over G.I. rights overseas by killing a Japanese woman in an Army firing area last January, and Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, pert Japanese divorcee; in the Camp Whittington chapel, 60 miles from Tokyo...
Restricted to Camp Whittington, 60 miles from Tokyo, slim, pompadoured Army Specialist Third Class William S. Girard, 21, parried newsmen with newly polished "no comments," posed for pictures with his fiancée, Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27, kept in touch with his lawyers on both sides of the Pacific. As one of his ex-buddies put it, Girard was "learning to walk like a hero" in the growing light of worldwide publicity...