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Daniel Ludwig was a very secretive man. He lived quietly in a Manhattan penthouse, from which he generally walks to his office a few blocks away. Somewhat crippled by an old back injury, he makes his slow and painful way along the sidewalk, all alone, he can be taken for an elderly pensioner out for a breath of air.
He seldom talks to anybody on his daily jaunt and is particularly curt with reporters who occasionally try to accost him along his route. He hasn't talked to reporters for years. Even when he does talk to them, his habitual secrecy keeps him from revealing everything. He fails to mention, or perhaps deliberately hides, all kinds of information from the important to the relatively trivial.
Back in 1957 he granted to Fortune reporter Dero Saunders what the magazine said was the first press interview in Ludwig's whole career—and which became the only record of his openly discussing his life and career with a journalist and that article became the chief source of information for later researchers of Daniel Ludwig’s background. Saunders reported, for example, that the twice-married Ludwig had no children of his own. In fact, he had a daughter by his first marriage. Important? Hardly. Yet, the peculiar little inaccuracy illustrates Ludwig's temperament. As Dero Saunders himself wrote somewhat wryly in the 1957 report, "Ludwig's most notable characteristic.., is a lifelong penchant for keeping his mouth shut." But as he listened to Ludwig relate his success story, Saunders developed an almost unqualified admiration for the man. He noticed one negative aspect on the man, however and that was Dan’s stinginess. He wrote:
Ludwig's organization is staffed with competent men—but not one man too many
He seldom talks to anybody on his daily jaunt and is particularly curt with reporters who occasionally try to accost him along his route. He hasn't talked to reporters for years. Even when he does talk to them, his habitual secrecy keeps him from revealing everything. He fails to mention, or perhaps deliberately hides, all kinds of information from the important to the relatively trivial.
Back in 1957 he granted to Fortune reporter Dero Saunders what the magazine said was the first press interview in Ludwig's whole career—and which became the only record of his openly discussing his life and career with a journalist and that article became the chief source of information for later researchers of Daniel Ludwig’s background. Saunders reported, for example, that the twice-married Ludwig had no children of his own. In fact, he had a daughter by his first marriage. Important? Hardly. Yet, the peculiar little inaccuracy illustrates Ludwig's temperament. As Dero Saunders himself wrote somewhat wryly in the 1957 report, "Ludwig's most notable characteristic.., is a lifelong penchant for keeping his mouth shut." But as he listened to Ludwig relate his success story, Saunders developed an almost unqualified admiration for the man. He noticed one negative aspect on the man, however and that was Dan’s stinginess. He wrote:
Ludwig's organization is staffed with competent men—but not one man too many
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