European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 1, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine putting off until tomorrow what had to be done yesterday it pm in Ift ivs by Enid Nemy new York times Atrice Mussel sounded As ii she had been waiting for the phone to ring or Lor thai matter Tor any other distraction. She was leaving new York Lor Europe that afternoon she said and she was packing but not to worry. I always leave things until the last  Sha said. I m a constant  Munsel the opera and concert Star considers Hersell a Champion in the Art of procrastination. She is not alone. Like any number of Busy people whose lives Are filled with frantic schedules she has compiled a number of ingenious and time consuming activities that she pursues the minute Sho is faced with things that really must be Dona. Moreover she said she has no guilt Complex about her alternate activities because they were All useful. Altar All h was t As though she was sitting around watching television and eating grapes. 8h� paused As procrastinators Are fond of doing but eventually went on. To be fair she said she should add that her ill gel it done but not now Altitude had almost sent her husband Robert Schuler the producer around the Bend. He is a do it that in Slang person and in fact is trying to train her away from her bad habits without conspicuous Success. The clock was ticking but apparently the Zero hour had t quite arrived. Munsel began enumerating some of her favorite ways of putting off things including talking on the Telephone while she should be packing. One of my favorite ways is brushing my French sheepdog especially when i should be doing something like Reading a difficult orchestration she said. I like brushing the dog because it lakes a Long time. I also like cleaning out closets which i be been doing or 20 years and Reading  but Mun sol said an even better method of stretching procrastination to us limits was a swim in the Pool. After that i m so cold i have to take a Long hot Shower she said. That s wonderful because by the time you do it All at least two and a half hours have gone  Steven Kumeta another procrastinator Par excellence. Is the managing partner in it ploy Kumble Wagner. Heine. Underberg Manley & Casey one of a biggest Law firms in the United. States. He has he says the Best shined shoes in  Cumbte s profess Lon and his shoes Are somewhat related.  is what he does when he s taken Home lengthy documents and he can t Ace Reading them yet. When the shoes Shine and sparkle Kumble often goes into his exercise room and runs on a Treadmill an activity that serves a dual purpose. It s Good Tor his health and it s impossible to peruse heavy Reading while so engaged. He was he said very Good about getting things done when the pressure is on but he s also been known to put off doing things in the office. Ill walk around and visit with different lawyers and people in the firm he said. Well talk about any topic As Long As it s totally irrelevant to what i m working  Kumeto Mummy or prime to hear that there were some people who never procrastinated. I d hate them he said. Which is Why it s fortunate that Peggy Vanderwoort to wife is also a Procura senator. Mrs. Kumble is an authority on horses an International thoroughbred bloodstock consultant and last year savvy Magazine featured her As an outstanding professional woman and ran her picture on the cover. My True confession is that rather than do what i should be doing i make lists of things to do mrs. Kumble Sam. The other Day i had to do an appraisal of six horses Tor a Bank and it s something i hate to do. Every time i started it i d find some reason to postpone it. What i did was sit Down at the computer and make a list of other things i had to do. I do this All the time up to a final  miking lilt of thing to do is in fact a favorite pastime at most procrastinators. When i make a list i get the terrific feeling that the things on it Are already done said Franchelli Cadwell president of Cadwell Davis partners. I make lists and i Transfer the things that Aren t done to the next one. Sometimes the lists look As though they Haven t changed much said Mario Buatta the decorator. Buatta said that at times he spent More time and  than he would have it he had actually done what should Havo been Dono. I have to stay one step ahead of my clients so the trick is to procrastinate in order of what is most important he said when i have a deadline whatever it is gets done but one of my biggest problems is that i love working on  another might be thai in addition to making lists and Reading old newspapers Buatta also eats ice Cream As a method of avoiding doing something More crucial. I go to the refrigerator i have a Little taste and then now York Telmet i go away and come Back and. Have another Little taste and before i know it the Box is  he said. But he added a Hasty justification that s not All had because it gives me the Energy to do the  Cadwell whose advertising Agency handles divisions of such companies As Johnson & Johnson. Conde Nast and general Mills said that when she had a writing Job to do on a week and. And could t Ace a typewriter she washed her hair. Sometimes i Wash my hair three or four limes on a saturday she said. I never got Over my College Days when i left exam studying or he last  at the office. Cadwell said i water my plants a Cut Oil dead leaves 1 spend a lot of Lime on that you should see my plants confirmed  might take heart from or. Erika Freemark Pagan a psychologist and psychoanalyst who is is herself a member of the club. In part it s that we re perfectionists and we want whatever we Are doing to be absolutely wonderful she said. There s some fear that if the of is completed it won t be ust  Freeman Padan agreed that making lists was a form of procrastination but it was not. She said the highest form. The highest form was making lists and losing them because looking for them occasioned an additional delay. I m inventing a movable Wall or people who can Only work with their backs against  she said. They la hop to it and get things done Only when the gun icons them straight in the Eye. It s a Little ill Tallon with  Friday november 1, 1965 the stars and stripes Page 13