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...Soon afterward Fred became a glazier in the Northumberland town of South Shields. With only an ancient cat named Dimpy for company, he settled down to a life of solitude punctuated only by occasional memories of the wife he had loved and the son he had lost. Then, one day this month. Fred was called in by a neighbor to fix a broken windowpane. Over the inevitable cup of tea, the lonely man, now 77, told his story. "Why, that's funny." said another neighbor who had dropped in. "I heard almost the same story from a bus conductor...
...tables and playing the trap drums in a dance band, started with the Bell System by digging holes, setting poles and stringing wire. He climbed up the pole through engineering and operating departments, and in 1949 took over as boss of A.T. & T.'s Long Lines Department. Shortly afterward, he became vice president in charge of Bell operations and engineering...
...Spent 18 minutes with Mamie and members of his staff in a new, $750,000 White House air-raid shelter during a mock A-bomb raid. Afterward, Civil Defense officials reckoned that, had the raid been real, the President would have survived, although 120,000 Washingtonians in the neighborhood would have been casualties...
...brood about them. There are times, in fact, when he experiences an uneasy amazement at his own mental processes?particularly at a sense of intuition that has nudged him to many a successful engineering conclusion that neither he nor the science of aerodynamics could explain rationally until years afterward...
...during the next year (with Godfrey last year, he made an estimated $35,000). Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town television show snapped him up at $3,000 a guest performance. Mamie Eisenhower watched him rehearse for a role in Washington's Navy Relief Ball, afterward shook his hand, repeating again and again, "Isn't he cute? Isn't he cute...