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Frederic Garrett Donner, a slight (5 ft. 8 in.), bespectacled, grey-haired commuter, catches the 7:34 out of Port Washington, L.I. each workday morning for Manhattan's Penn Station, where he changes to the subway for his Columbus Circle office. Like many another straphanger, Donner has a habit of leaning out impatiently over the subway platform to see whether his train is coming. Last week the uptown train roared in for Fred Donner, 55. In a major shift of General Motors personnel, Financial Vice President Donner was tapped to succeed retiring President Harlow Curtice as boss...
...Professor of American History and winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of President Grover Cleveland and U.S. Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. A stumpy, explosively energetic man who impatiently brushes away his age and anything else that interferes with his 6:30 a.m.-to-11:15 p.m. workday, he has written some 25 volumes, edited a dozen others. Historian Nevins was an editorial writer on the New York World and other papers until 1931, joined Columbia's staff as a full professor that year. but never found time to take a Ph.D. Among Nevins' projects: American...
...shape of Turkey today is the shape given it by Adnan Menderes. His energy is seemingly inexhaustible. Out of bed by 6 a.m. at the latest, he heads off without breakfast on an hour to two-hour hike that invariably includes at least one hill. His workday is a 12-to 19-hour affair, punctuated by impulsive trips into the countryside to inspect one of his projects. Out of long experience, his bodyguards always keep packed bags at the office, and Turkish Airlines is instructed to hold open at least two seats on every Ankara-Istanbul flight. Along with...
...Geoffrey Notman, 56. Canadair's grizzled, square-jawed president, known as "willing horse" because of his 12-to-18 hour workday. Notman began his career as a junior engineer in Quebec, directed the production of airplanes, explosives, ships and guns for the Canadian government during the war; he was taken on as executive vice president in 1950, elected Canadair's president...
...Kamakovsky spoke eight month's worth of English which he learned last winter by going to the city after an eight and a half hour workday to take a four and a half hour language class. Arriving home between 8 and 9 in the evening, he would begin his "homework" for the factory...