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...breaks his long workday by getting home as soon after 5 as possible, taking a shower and a nap before dinner. Page and his wife (a former ballet dancer, author of a promising 1953 novel, The Bracelet) have two sons, 13 and 16. At college (Cornell '21), Page used to play "the long-necked banjo" to help pay his tuition. Now he has gone hifi, playing Mahler and Sibelius, while he gets in two or three more hours of medical reading or writing after dinner. Bedtime...
...clock, De Sapio had begun the workday that would last for 18 hours (seven days a week). His wavy black hair, streaked at the temples with silver, was meticulously combed. The talcum was in place. He wore the tinted glasses that are his trademark. He sat at a grey, formica-topped kitchen table and, in the manner of a man aware of his clothes, hiked up his big shoulders, thereby pulling up his coat-sleeves to reveal his gleaming cufflinks. Passing through the kitchen was De Sapio's 17-year-old daughter Geraldine (whose fierce pride in her father...
...front of him. All morning 54-year-old Judson S. Sayre took calls, received visitors and dictated letters at a rapid clip. At noon, with his neck in a brace, he left the hospital for his office, returned later in the afternoon to finish up his 15-hour workday...
Since then, Harlow Curtice has never slowed his pace. Up at 6 a.m. every morning, in his suite in the G.M. building in Detroit, he spends upwards of 14 hours a workday on the job, usually sees his family in Flint, his hometown, only on weekends. Though head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation (1953 sales: an estimated $11 billion), he is not above taking a complaint about service personally over the phone from a G.M. car owner, and doing something about it. Design is his hobby, and the new cars incorporate some of the features...
Porfirio Rubirosa has held his job at the Dominican Republic's Paris embassy long enough to fray many a pair of striped pants, and the job has been good to him. In a typical workday (lately as minister counselor), he might play polo at Deauville, or catch the races at Auteuil. Evenings, unless he happened to be spreading joy in Cannes or Monte Carlo, he usually liked to start early at Maxim...