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How Did Edward Bock Get His Start?
Edward Bock left school when he was 13 and became an office boy for Western Union. He saved his car fares and went without lunch until he had enough money to buy an encyclopedia of American biography. And then he did an unheard-of thing: He read the lives of famous people and wrote them asking for additional information about their childhoods.