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...Willard C. Rappleye Jr. was the correspondent who rode the subway, following a fellow passenger in his rounds-the head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation. General Motors' Chairman Fred Donner is a man who lives simply, was brought up in a family that did not seek publicity, rarely gives interviews, and on behalf of General Motors believes that "we would much rather be inscrutable than talk too much." His 9½ hours with Rappleye may set some sort of record for this reticent man. Recently, on one of Donner's inspection trips...
When Jenny Lind arrived in Washington, President and Mrs. Millard Fillmore dutifully hiked through the woods between the White House and the Willard Hotel to leave their calling card. She began her first Washington concert before an audience that included the Fillmores, Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Henry Clay of Kentucky, and 14 empty seats in the front row, reserved for the seven members of Fillmore's Cabinet and their wives. The Cabinet was off at the Russian ministry having dinner and soaking up exotic wines and vodka. Jenny Lind was singing Hail, Columbia when they swayed down...
...shoot at the workers." Said the head of a sugar company: "Maybe the steel people did need a price increase, but going about it in the way they did puts a plague on all our houses." The business community was plainly apprehensive of Kennedy's wrath. Said Willard F. Rockwell, chairman of Rockwell-Standard Corp. (axles and frames): "Kennedy's press conference performance showed a most vicious attitude toward business. What kind of justice is it-when one guy steps out of line to punish us all for being in business...
Their mother, who was Henry Fonda's second wife (he has had four), took her own life during a mental illness in 1950. The children were processed through a series of New York and New England schools. Jane went to Emma Willard School in Troy, N.Y. ("It was ghastly-all girls, and that's unhealthy"), then on to Vassar. A sophisticated delinquent, she was one Vassar girl who never bought a bicycle, preferring to steal them instead. Unprepared for an exam, she filled her blue book with drawings and handed it in. The college refused to flunk...
...Orville Freeman, a former Governor of Minnesota, had little exposure to farms and farmers, says: "When I became Secretary of Agriculture, I did not pose as a farm expert. I expressed a sincere desire to learn." A chief author of the Kennedy Administration program was in fact ex-Professor Willard Cochrane, Freeman's director of agricultural economics, former member of the University of Minnesota faculty, and a farm brain-truster under the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations...