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Kidney-Shaped Command Post. Today, Reuther, labor's aging (47) boy wonder, still looks boyish: no grey threads his reddish hair, no bags encase his eyes, no bulges swell his lean flanks. As a machinist, after a 13-hour factory day, he used to do calisthenics or swim at the Y. After a speech or meeting away from Detroit, he used to hike six or seven miles late at night before going to bed. A powerhouse of physical energy, he bounces and bounds with swift, long strides...
...works 12 to 18 hours a day, usually lunches on a sandwich at his desk, a 12-ft.-long kidney-shaped masterpiece that he designed himself. While reading or talking, Reuther scribbles incessantly in notebooks, jotting down his jet-stream of ideas (even in bed, at night, when he thinks of something, he gets up to make a note of it). The U.A.W.'s top officials have all picked up the habit; when called, they pick up their notebooks and gather around Reuther's kidney-shaped command post. If they argue too long, he snaps: "I think...
...recent years Reuther has read only one novel (The Caine Mutiny), seen only one movie (On the Waterfront) and taken no vacations. Years ago some fellow unionists took him to a Lake Huron shore cottage for a holiday; he stayed indoors reading up on economics. When they finally got him out on the lake, the water turned rough and Reuther got seasick...
...apostle of the more abundant life, Reuther is usually too preoccupied for leisurely pleasures. When Miami was suggested last winter as the site for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unity meeting, Reuther was distressed. "Why, I can't go to Miami," he cried. "It wouldn't look right." Some years ago he assembled his Detroit staff to meet two visiting Congressmen, one of whom remarked archly about the collection of secretarial beauties. Walter looked up and stared at them in surprise before it dawned on him that the Congressman was right. Said one of the girls later: "I honestly think...
Help Needed. On Friday, March 13, 1936, Reuther married pretty, auburn-haired Mae Wolf, a physical-education instructor whom he met before his European trip. He never wrote to her, but began courting on his return. "On our wedding night," Mrs. Reuther recalls, "we took a drive out of town somewhere. Walter had to make a speech...