¶Fred A. Manske, 55, became president of National Gypsum replacing Lewis R. Sanderson, who retired at the age of 65 in accordance with a company rule. Chicago-born Fred Manske, a graduate mechanical engineer (Armour Institute of Technology, '23) is a born go-getter who financed most of his education from a newspaper delivery route and a handbill distribution business, worked as a bill collector at 16. He broke into the industry as sales correspondent for U.S. Gypsum by day, by night studied accounting and marketing at Northwestern University, dabbled in inventions (20 patents)....
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