PERSONNEL: Back in Harness

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For a man who started as an office boy and 41 years later wound up as General Electric's boss, retirement had come hard. "All I know," said Charles Edward Wilson when he resigned as Defense Mobilizer last April, "is work." Last week Wilson 66, threw off the shackles of too much freedom, happily settled down in a new job. As chairman of the executive committee of W. R. Grace & Co., he will boss strategy for the shipping and export house's vigorous expansion into such new lines as chemicals, outdoor advertising and insecticides (TIME, Sept. 15). Said Wilson as he took over the newly created post: "It's fun. This is the kind of thing I thrive on."