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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Born in Blacksburg, S.C. into a farming family of Scots-Irish-German origin, he was educated at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, at North Carolina's old Trinity College (now Duke University) and at M.I.T. ('26), where he got a degree in business and engineering administration and made Phi Beta Kappa. After graduation he stayed on to work for M.I.T.'s Technology Review, was made editor in 1930, spent the next nine years picking up a general know-how of the whole spectrum of science and engineering, developing a facility for tight organization and clear, candid self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: MISSILEMEN | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...believe that the people of Kamela know so little about trees. As for your correspondent: Didn't he ever see a fence stapled to a sapling? And did it grow skyward with the tree? . . . WILBUR O'BYRNE Blacksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1951 | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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