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...somewhat platitudinous manner (his favorite clichés are "let's walk around that idea" and "facts-not opinions") is apt to mislead strangers about the kind of businessman 54-year-old Donald Davis really is. No Horatio Alger up-from-nothing boy, he studied engineering at Michigan with the cold-blooded notion that he would avoid settling on any one career until he was 35. Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making...
Just as Teddy Roosevelt set the pattern of Frank Knox's life, Horatio Alger wrote the pattern of his career. As a boy, Frank got up at 3 a.m. to cover the morning paper route, doubled on an evening paper route after school, earned $2.25 a week. He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave...
...Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
...husband Lawrence delivered new cars on a haul-away trailer out of Detroit ten years ago, and business was terrible. One day she "read in the paper about some boat races, and got to wondering how they hauled these boats around." Later she heard that Yachtsman Russell A. Alger Jr. was going to take 13 new sloops from Detroit to Charlevoix, Mich., asked...
...Class Odist who provides the humor at the graduation exercises, reciting his ode to the tune of Fair Harvard. T. S. Eliot '10, Horatio Alger, Jr. '52, Dean Chase '96, and Kenneth B. Murdock '16, are a few of the men who have written odes in the long history of Class...