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Word of Captain Rickover's project started buzzing discreetly through the fleet. Here & there, carefully screened sub officers were called to Washington for an interview with Rickover. A hand-picked few were sent up to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a three-year course in subjects relevant to atomic engines...
...good connections. He was a friend of the President's oldest son, Robert; he saw a good deal of a Watertown lawyer named Robert Lansing, who had married his aunt and later was to become Secretary of State under Wilson. In two years, the turbine purred through a three-year law course at George Washington University (top of the class), purred on and mastered New York State's bar exam...
...officer said "a wave of disgust, indignation and shame" had swept the town. In the face of such civic outrage, slow-moving Sheriff Marshall decided to fire Deputy Sheffield after all. Newsmen began looking into the background of Private Eye Underwood. They discovered he had been given a three-year sentence for the stickup of a Chicago bottling firm in 1947, and was wanted as a parole violator. He was slapped into jail, protesting that he would "rather die" than go back to Chicago...
...Soon his expert "fist" could send 45 words per minute steadily for eight hours-a pace not many could equal. After two years there, he got himself transferred to Long Island, at a $10 cut in pay, so that he could go to night school, where he finished a three-year electrical engineering course in twelve months. When his big chance came, he was ready for it: he was an operator in the Marconi wireless station, atop John Wanamaker's Manhattan store, on the night of April 14, 1912, when he picked up a message from the S.S. Titanic...
Frills & Airplanes. Founding father of the Singer empire was Isaac Merrit Singer, a full-bearded, Yankee mechanic. On $40 borrowed capital, he developed the first practical sewing machine in Boston in 1850-and ran into a three-year court fight. Elias Howe, who several years before had brought out a machine which was similar (but which did not work well), sued for patent infringement...