I believe I can fly
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Jason pointed this out when I was visiting him in Sevilla. From an (unedited?) obituary on investment banker Albert Gordon in the NYTimes. Absolutely priceless.
Mr. Gordon arrived on Wall Street in 1925 as a new Harvard Business School graduate, to take a job as a statistician with Goldman. He traveled an immense territory selling commercial paper; he was on a train 12 nights out of 14. (He was later one of the first investment bankers to fly.)
I wonder if Mr. Gordon was buried with his wings.
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