Word: bowerman
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...genius, according to Webster, is "a man endowed with transcendent ability." Walter G. Bowerman, assistant actuary of the New York Life Insurance Co., is more specific. A typical U.S. genius (male), he says, is 5 ft. 10 inches tall, weighs 175 Ibs., and begets 5.54 children. Actuary Bowerman has 20 years of study to back his findings, published in a new book Studies in Genius (Philosophical Library...
...basis of Bowerman's selection was the space allotted in the 1936 edition of the Dictionary of American Biography: every biography that rated 1½ pages or more was selected in the first drawing. Then, for reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker...
...third of the thousand geniuses did not go to college; among those who did, Harvard was the overwhelming favorite,† followed, at a respectful distance, by Yale, West Point and Princeton. The average genius was widely traveled, domestically inclined. Only 65 of the thousand were single. As Insurance Man Bowerman undoubtedly noted, the average genius was a good life-insurance risk, dying at a ripe...
...reason for the predominance of Harvard and Massachusetts men: the majority of Bowerman's geniuses lived in the early years of the U.S., when Massachusetts and Harvard were the hub of U.S. cultural life...
...fellow Canadians. William Lyon Mackenzie King spent the first days of last week waiting to learn whether he would win or lose in his own constituency of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. When the soldier votes were finally counted,* the Prime Minister had been beaten by socialist CCFer E. L. Bowerman. What made the dose doubly hard for King to take: his defeat was by a piddling 129 votes (out of 19,341 votes cast); Bowerman was running for public office for the first time...