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...cylinder head. Like an engine, he carries a normal workload easily and can turn on extra power when needed. A shy man, he seems to shrink from human contact, uses memos to notify his top men of raises. Even United Aircraft's President H. M. ("Jack") Horner, Rentschler's close aid for 23 years, still calls him "Mr. Rentschler...
...January had the first model in a test block. As its blast shook the concrete floor of the test cell, Jack Homer said: "Well, I think we have overshot the field." Solemnly, an old Pratt & Whitney hand interposed: "We may have trouble with the landing gear." Asked the puzzled Horner: "What landing gear?" "I mean," said the Old Hand, "when we let the building back down...
Road to the Top. For all his one-man rule, Fred Rentschler has picked a team which can carry on without him. "Anybody who can run Pratt & Whitney," he says, "can run United." Jack Horner, 47, moved from Pratt & Whitney to United's presidency in 1943. William Gwinn, 43, who came to Pratt & Whitney at 19 as a kid "crazy about aviation," now bosses Pratt & Whitney. (Of Rentschler's original team, he alone is active in the company.) Though United is primarily an engine-builder (more than two-thirds of its dollar sales), its other divisions are fast...
Minor Sport H--John H. Hart, New York, N.Y.; Henry C. Horner, Worcester, Mass.; John G. Houser, Cleveland, Ohio; Donald Kennedy, Dearborn, Mich.; James A. Lawson, Foxboro, Mass.; Skiddy M. Lund, Chestnut Hills, Mass.; Edward R. Ritvo, Newton, Mass.; James K. Weaver, Glenwood Springs, Colo.; Timothy J. Wise, New York, N.Y.; James W. Downs, Manager, Cleveland, Ohio...
...Wise's experience may show up in any of the four events, while Skiddy Lund should ably back up Hart in the cross-country. The team is weakest in the slalom. Taylor will count on John Hauser in this event, although Henry "Butch" Horner is capable of surprising everyone...