Word: successful
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...Henry Ford, nor do most of America's industrial revolutionists. "Curiously enough," Arthur E. Morgan (TVA) became a genius of flood control without an engineering degree; still without degree he became a college president (Antioch, 1920) to promote the educational philosophy that a degree in theory hampers the success of many a man by limiting his imagination to the record of accomplishment certified on his roll of parchment: "the textbooks you've digested have told you how things have been done which is how they should be done...
Many a degree holder looks upon his sheepskin as symbol of his success in mastering all the ideas of his profession. "According to the Gibbsian philosophy, 'he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes him.'" Franklin, Edison, the Wright Bros, held no degrees [except honorary] in their professions, "curiously enough...
...expects the program to release 30,000 Minnesotans for farm work (1,200 of them State employes). The catch is that except for the power to fire a few State employes the Governor cannot insure success for his program; it is not compulsory. But he expects it to be "backed by the force of public opinion...
...director, disheveled, 49-year-old Jasper Deeter, is hopelessly stage-mad but brilliantly stage-minded. He has built up a permanent company who get no salary (only board & lodging on a comfortable farm), receive no billing (yet often turn down good paying offers). Indifferent to commercial success Hedgerow is content to pioneer with unknown playwrights and to pay tribute to great ones-Shakespeare, Molière, Shaw...
...musicomedy Ballyhoo, which "flopped in rather a hurry." Later he sang One Alone for "every chorus audition in town." ("In the chorus I knew that if you look fairly eager you always get a chance to understudy, and as understudy I tried with varying success to get the principals drunk. In short, I progressed...