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...Author. Norman Mailer attended public schools in Brooklyn, at Harvard studied engineering, shortly after graduation married Beatrice Silverman (later a lieutenant in the WAVES). During the war he served in Leyte, Luzon and Japan, as a clerk, an aerial photograph expert, a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, a cook, a baker. Discharged in 1946, he wrote The Naked and the Dead in a year and a half...
...Eichenwald '47 of New York City; Colin F. N. Irving '45 of Brookline; Frank W. Reeb '44, of 371 Harvard Street and Dwight, Ill.; David Z. Robinson '47 of Perkins Hall and Westmount, Quebec; Donald H. Shively '44 of 95 Prescott Street and Upper Montclair, N. J.; Richard A. Silverman '46, of Washington, D. C.; and Charles P. Slitcher '45, of Cambridge...
About a year before Convair laid him off, Silverman and eight other Convair workers pooled $10,000 (half was Silverman's), ran it up to $100,000 by dealing in real estate through their Postwar Investment Co. When Jack Hession was laid off, he went to work to figure out a bookkeeping system for small businessmen. They needed it badly because 1) most of them didn't know how to keep books and 2) they couldn't afford a part-time bookkeeper to do the job. Why not, thought Hession, a mail order service which would charge...
...months, Hession and Silverman had 1,000 California businessmen mailing their records every Monday to the company's San Diego and Los Angeles offices (Mail-Me-Monday pays the bill if their figures on tax returns are wrong). They soon had so many accounts that they started to sell franchises for the use of the idea on a basis of $1,500 down, $1 a month royalty on each account handled...
...first sixteen months, Accounting Corp. has grossed about $300,000, will net a sizeable chunk of this, since their expenses are small (they have only 60 employes). Last week, Silverman and Hession were in New York to explore the eastern market. Business was so brisk that Hession quipped: "We even had to hire bookkeepers to keep our own books...