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Unread 04-17-2020, 07:00 AM
Tim McGrath Tim McGrath is offline
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Also from the NYT:

"His father, an autodidact, had left school at age 14 and, with his photographic memory, made a living playing cards. Later he was a technician in the chemistry lab at the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys, setting up experiments for students, among them George Harrison and Paul McCartney."
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