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...Battle Ground. Marine Shoup was born in Battle Ground, Ind. (pop. 640), so named because it was there, in 1811, that General William Henry Harrison defeated Tecumseh's Indians in the battle of Tippecanoe. A farmer's son, he worked his way through nearby DePauw University, graduated ('26) as an "A" student with an ROTC Army commission, switched to the Marines. He married his childhood sweetheart, Zola De Haven (they have two grown children), stood peacetime duty on a dozen posts from Peiping to Iceland. In World War II he saw combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Saipan...
...fastest way possible. Though he is the boss of National Homes Corp., the world's biggest maker of prefabricated houses, Jim Price felt that not even National was big enough for what lay ahead. That week he walked into the company's Lafayette, Ind. executive offices, pointed to a map and said: "I want a plant here, here and here...
...Bedford, Ind...
...Gary, Ind...
SINCE taking over at S.-P., Churchill has cut executive payrolls from $1,250,000 to $350,000, even reduced his own salary from $64,000 to $60,000 a year-peanuts by Detroit standards. Like other S.P. executives in South Bend, Ind., he occupies a small office amid a clutter of gingerbready desks, cheaply painted walls. He lunches in S.-P.'s small dining room; one of his favorite dishes is hash. His home life is just as plain. A man who cannot keep from.working with his hands, he rebuilt a loo-year-old farmhouse from a tumbledown...