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...book), the boy was to be arrested in the raw at a railway station-"a kind of Strip-Jack-Naked. He's parted with everything, or they've taken it." In the 82 slaphappy and possibly autobiographical pages Thomas finished, the kid slides from one loony scrape to another, encumbered much of the way with a Bass ale bottle that has unaccountably got stuck fast on his finger...
Young Tom Watson was no ball of fire in his studies in school. He went to private schools in Short Hills, barely managed to scrape through Hun School in Princeton. After graduation from Brown University, he joined IBM. Starting at the bottom as a salesman in Manhattan's financial district, young Tom soon proved that he was his father's son. In an area where previous IBM salesmen had never made 100% of quota, he hit 231% and hung up a record. Says his father: "That was the only right way. He had to make his own records...
...order is expected to go into effect immediately and will direct the Licensing commission to require all alcoholic beverage license holders to scrape out their beer coils...
...cost of any expansion will be great, and the resources to defray the cost are problematical," he continued. "Even on the basis of our present size, we have to scrape the barrel to provide for the needs of our scientists, and we face serious operating deficits. Without any expansion we need at least one more residential college to relieve the serious overcrowding of the existing ten. We must find the resources to meet all these costs before we shall be in the position to plan with any confidence for further expansion...
...benefits on wealth families. Because of the graduate income tax, a father with a $20,000 income who can easily afford to send his son to Harvard would save nearly seven hundred dollars under the Multer proposal. Yet a family whose income is $5,000 would probably have to scrape to send a son to Harvard, and would receive benefits only a fraction that large...