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...executive committee; in Ardmore, Pa. He took over the firm in 1912, when he succeeded his father, Sunoco Founder Joseph N. Pew, as president. Though for a time a supporter of the John Birch Society, his penchant for privacy made him one of the nation's least-known industrial giants...
Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year. 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...
...charge. He just ambled along, playing the kind of steady, conservative golf that wins few fans - but lots of tournaments. Indeed, though he was the fourth-highest-ranking pro golfer last year, with winnings of $150,972, the 29-year-old Californian is one of the least-known top players on the tour. It's not that people don't notice him; at 6 ft. 6 in. and 185 lbs., he sticks out on the greens like a pin placement. It's just that he is short on glamour. "People tell me to grin more," he says...
...dream. He laces his conversation with homilies, and he espouses a philosophy of hard work, clean living, and positive thinking that might be too much for even his friend, Norman Vincent Peale. Yet nobody can argue about the success of Clem Stone. At 66, he is one of the least-known of America's superrich...
Preposterous as it now sounds, this arch-enemy of jargon and cant almost became an attorney. Perhaps he thought the law would satisfy those obscurantist tendencies which later found their gratification in an extensive collection of the least-known 18th century American writings. Until the spring of his senior year, 1949, he was set to be a lawyer; then he changed his mind, turned down a place at the Law School, and went off to study history at Columbia. Back at Harvard a year later, still desulting about, he fell under the spell of Perry Miller. For a decade that...