Word: dropouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dropout or Da Vinci. Some hangover. At 53, Kroyer is a millionaire several times over, supports a stable of Jaguars and race horses on the proceeds of more than 200 patents covering items from frying pans and bicycle rim linings to papermaking processes and ship-salvage techniques. He also has a $1,000,000 glass-and-steel research center near Aarhus and a staff of 60 en gineering assistants to ease the migraine of beating his brainstorms into workable plans...
Spindly and bespectacled, Kroyer's own background smacks more of a dropout than a Danish Da Vinci. A haberdasher's son who never went be yond grammar school, Kroyer even now winces at technical journals on the ground that "you risk reading yourself stupid." He explains his self-schooled skills by saying that "the recognition of a demand works on me like a magnet. I then set out to define the problems and correct them...
Like his idol Adolf Schicklgruber, he was an unsuccessful painter. He went bust in the advertising business and broke as a traveling salesman, and was a dropout as publisher of a woman's magazine. Both his marriages failed...
Kaiser was quietly proud that he was successful in spite of being a high-school dropout. He left school in upstate New York at 13 to help support the family. Henry worked his way West, signed on with a paving contractor, established his own company at 32, and lined up his first contract-for two miles of street in Vancouver. Because speed was worth money, he always made it a point to finish jobs ahead of time; on a California paving contract he laid a mile a week instead of the usual two miles a month, was constantly visited...
...debate with him." Asked if he thought Brown also was a Communist, Kirk borrowed one of Walter Reuther's old tag lines: "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it must be a duck." Nevertheless, the Governor thought that Brown, a dropout in his senior year at Louisiana's Southern University Agriculture and Mechanical College, still had a lot to learn about demagoguery. "If that's the way to start a riot," said Kirk, "he's not much...