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...young Benjamin Franklin organized ten convivial friends into the "Junto"*study club, to discuss such questions as: "Whence comes the dew that stands on the outside of a tankard?" and "Is self-interest the rudder that steers mankind?" The Junto club has long since disbanded, but it is still so famed in Philadelphia that when a group of public-spirited citizens started a nonprofit school for adult education in 1941, Junto seemed the logical name for it. Last week, the Junto told of making a business deal in its own self-interest that would have brought an amazed gasp from...
Without spending a cent of its own money (it had only $10,000), Junto in effect bought 4,028 houses worth some $32 million in Levittown, the Long Island mass housing development of Levitt & Sons. This complex deal in high finance was devised by bustling, mop-haired Philip Klein, a retired advertising man now Junto's non-salaried business manager. He had no trouble selling the deal to Builder William Levitt, who saw in it a way to save on his taxes...
Princetonian Junto...
...Samaria's" last trip, where the official paper was a dull sheet called "The Link," a junto led by some energetic Princetonians decided to put out a rival. They infiltrated the mimeographing room one night when the "Link" staff was carousing, helped themselves to a couple of thousand pieces of mimeographing paper, and printed up a parody number called "The Missing Link...
...Which originated in Benjamin Franklin's "Junto" club in 1743, when physical science was called "natrual philosophy...