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...practically grew up in the business. Born in Dayton, Ohio, he accompanied his father on business trips by the time he was eight. Even before that, he grew acquainted with his father's trademark THINK, which was plastered all over the house. He has frequently been introduced as "Mr. Think Jr." He studied economics at Brown University, graduated in 1937 and made a name for himself at I.B.M. as a salesman before he joined the Air Force (he ended up a lieutenant colonel). He served a six-month stint in & out of Russia when he helped open the lend...
...Charles Allen Thomas, world-famed as a chemist but known to his neighbors as an amateur farmer, was annoyed by the farmland that he owned near Dayton, Ohio. Some parts of the same field yielded well, while other parts yielded badly. Chemical analysis showed that both patches had the same supply of plant nutrients. What was the difference...
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Defense, Prince Mishaal Ibn Abdul Aziz proved to be a man worth his escort. After a tour of the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base at Dayton, one of his secretaries handed a guard a princely tip: $500 in bills. It's impossible," the man stammered. "I can't accept anything like this." Said the secretary: "You can't refuse. The Prince insists you take it for all the police...
Potter was on hand for the famous Scopes evolution trial at Dayton, Tenn. in 1925. As part of the team of big names and intellectuals who defended Schoolteacher Scopes and the theory of evolution, Dr. Potter and his wife lived at the "Monkey House," as defense headquarters was called. One of his jobs: advising Lawyer Clarence Darrow how to badger Fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan with Biblical quiddities, such as how the Garden of Eden's serpent got around before God condemned him to wriggling on his belly...
...Lowell, Greek; Marshall P. Ernstene, of Cleveland and Adams, Physics; Helmut J.F. Furth, of Washington, D.C. and Dunster, History and Literature; Jerrold B. Lanes, of Brookline and Lowell, History and Literature; John L. Lewis, Jr., of Austin, Texas and Dunster, Social Relations; and George R. Murray, of Dayton, Ohio and Eliot, Biochemical Sciences...