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...Mac & the Girls...
...mounted on the underside of the wings of Navy planes-we couldn't have known we were spawning such a big girl as "Annie." I remember one occasion when they shot up their own fuselage and the plane came crippling in-a mech had lost a foot and Mac's hand was badly injured. Mac's rueful remark was that it was a pretty stupid way to have to earn a Purple Heart...
Says Procter & Gamble's Board Chairman Richard R. ("Red") Deupree: "Management today doesn't require specific skills. A successful manager has to have overall skill of management. It's something in you that wants to come out. Mac makes quick decisions. He makes 'em fast. No one can be right all of the time, but Mac is right a majority of the time. An executive has to be right just about all of the time. He is making maybe 100 decisions a day, but if he knows his business he won't have to think...
...president, McElroy still wanted the facts. "Just as he remembers names and faces," says a P. & G. executive, "Mac remembers facts, and woe be to anyone in the Pentagon who doesn't remember that Mac can remember every damn thing he ever saw. He can look at a page with hundreds of figures on it and get to the source of any error. He has the same ability to detect a flaw in an argument...
With 82 cards to his credit, MacLeish easily outdistances his nearest rivals. In second place is Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who currently burdens the catalog with some 62 titles. Jones was in third place, one ahead of Mac Leish...