Templeton, John
<p>Jan 07, 2014 10:26 AM</p>
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see Bloomberg documentary</p>
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born 1912; had free-reign as boys... Tennessee; (boys would blow stumps out of field as a boy)</p>
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mom well educated, from Tennessee;</p>
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father: serial entrepreneur cotton gin;
buy property at auction;;</p>
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john hunted for bargains;
buy firecrackers wholesale and sell retail individ.
rebuilt at broken down ford...</p>
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made a tennessee wine;</p>
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given a bail of cotton for good grades;</p>
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Yale College: he taught a math course needed for college: yale;</p>
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father: John Templeton;</p>
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had to work 3 jobs to pay for school;</p>
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he understood probabioity; great poker face;</p>
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made money by playing poker;</p>
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on to become a Rhodes scholar; "gentleman do not study biz: he was told;
traveled to 36 Olympics; (age 24); secretly engaged to a southern belle (Welleseley);
Judith: enaged to 3 other men but Johnny won;</p>
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lived in cold water flat in Harlem;</p>