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...Stagg's own life shows that his world travels and wide experiences would make it difficult to categorize him according to career or life-time activities--the two important factors in his study. Although he is an English subject, Stagg was born in South America and spent his boyhood on his family's Ecuadoran cocoa plantation, second largest in the world. His grandfather had come to South America as a British naval officer who was ordered to protect his expire's interest there after the defeat of Napoleon...
...Expansion." He has constantly proclaimed that U.S. industry needs tremendous growth to keep abreast of rising population, bigger incomes and greater consumer wants. He envisions "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...
...horizons looked bleak enough for Gwilym (Welsh for William) Price in his Pennsylvania boyhood. At 16, when his father, a tin-mill worker, died, young Bill had to quit school to go to work. He studied stenography, clerked by day and read law at night. In 1917, he was the University of Pittsburgh's youngest law graduate (22). After a World War I stint overseas as a tank commander, he became a trust officer for what is now the Peoples First National Bank & Trust Co. At 44, he became the bank's president. In the following three years...
...Africa fan from boyhood, Artist Adrian painted many an imaginary African scene before he ever laid eyes on the continent. In 1949 he and his wife took a motor trip through the Sudan, Kenya and the Belgian Congo, "to see if my African dream were true." Bumping over 4,000 miles of trails, he decided that he had been right in the main. But he picked up a lot of new ideas. At home, working from notes and memory, he turned out the current show's canvases in a year and a half...
...Revolt." The book begins as biographies are supposed to, with Bolivar's background. His land-owning family was rich and fashionably enlightened. Simon, born in Caracas in 1783, grew up in a "genteel atmosphere of revolt" and got an education based on Rousseau. He spent much of his boyhood in the country, leading a life of camping and hunting. A visit to Europe helped to make him a patriot: a Spanish officer sneered at the colonies, and young Bolivar flared up in such a hot retort that he was "advised" to leave Madrid. Back home, he joined the radicals...