He
found this article in an institute whose black-faced headline in its
advertisements was, "We Make You a $50,000 Executive"; and the article
which he found, by payment of a special fee, was an old man who had
been the manager of a big brokerage concern until his growing
addiction to drink and later to drugs had rendered him undependable.
But old Bronson certainly did know the fundamentals and intricacies of
the kind of big business which is straight, and it was a delight to
him to pour out his knowledge to a keen intelligence.
Larry, in his own words, simply "mopped it up." His experience had
been so wide and varied that he now had only to be shown a bone of
fact and almost instantly he visioned in their completeness unextinct
ichthyosauri of business. By day he fairly consumed old Bronson; he
read dry books far into the night. Thus he rapidly filled the holes in
the walls of his knowledge, and strengthened its rather sketchy
foundation. Of course he realized that what he was learning was in a
sense academic; it had to be tested and developed and made flexible by
experience; but then much of it became instantly a living enlargement
of the things of which he was already a master.
Old Bronson was delighted; he had never had so apt a pupil. "In less
than no time you'll be the real head of that house you're with!" he
proudly declared.
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