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...Harvard class ring was long gone, pawned years before with a pair of cufflinks, when Robert E. Mack '47 spent his first day inside the Yellow Tin Box on the streets of Manhattan...
...Mack was in business for himself behind the wheel of a leased yellow cab, earning money to jump-start a commercial newsletter business...
Before working in the cab, Mack had been a journalist, reporting on the New York state legislature for United Press International (UPI), and covering conventions and demonstrations in the '60s with an NBC camera...
...Bronze Star for bravery in combat against the Germans in the last days of the Second World War. But in 1990, back on his feet and out of the taxi, Mack wrote an article for Harvard Magazine that began: "I didn't know tough until I drove a cab in New York City...
...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...