Word: pattersons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Allyn had a master to teach him: John H. Patterson, N.C.R.'s founder, an erratic genius generally credited with being the father of modern salesmanship. Allyn, born in Madison, Wis., was just out of the University of Wisconsin ('13) when he went to Dayton to attend a wedding. He paid a visit to the N.C.R. plant and noticed a sign listing 100 reasons why it was a good place to work...
Only one really caught Allyn's eye: "No relatives in the business." Patterson did not really mean it. But it was enough to persuade Allyn to start clerking at $20 a week, though friends told him that the cash register was a dead-end business-everybody...
Working for Patterson was an experience. The boss liked everyone to be on the job at 6:30 a.m., insisted that executives wear vests and join him in his food fads (he once heard that Bulgarians lived long because they ate garlic, had plates of the buds served at every lunch). Young Allyn survived it all, and at 27, he was comptroller and the youngest member of N.C.R.'s board...