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...regular at ABP knows him, talks to him, likes him, gets advice from him. Wernher P., the man with the mysterious name...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: THE SMILING FACE BEHIND THE COUNTER | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

...name tag is as inviting as he is. "How are you today?" asks the man whose tag curiously reads, 'Wernher P.' And for about the thousandth time, his thick, French/Creole accent betraying his Haitian heritage, he inquires, "What would you like...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: THE SMILING FACE BEHIND THE COUNTER | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

Dark eyebrows arched, large eyes twinkling with amused interest, Wernher P.'s face breaks out into a grin...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: THE SMILING FACE BEHIND THE COUNTER | 12/7/1991 | See Source »

Growing up in Shelby, Mont., Horner collected his first dinosaur fossil at the age of eight, and he set out in high school to become either a paleontologist or the next Wernher Von Braun. His schoolwork was wretched, but he excelled at science projects. One, presented to a small group of bored adults at the local airport, was an experiment to track the flight of a homemade rocket. It went up 15,000 ft. at a velocity of 800 m.p.h., and the memory of his gaping elders still gratifies Horner, who scraped through high school with a D average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JACK HORNER; Head Man In the Boneyard | 9/10/1990 | See Source »

...Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., came Wernher von Braun, 45, the exuberant Prussian who had fathered the German V-2 rockets. He had been among those who rushed into American hands when the Third Reich collapsed. Von Braun souped up his Redstone missile, put a tiny satellite dubbed Explorer on top and sent it into orbit. There was no turning back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pioneers in Love with the Frontier | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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