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>As a teenager Mr McCarthy taught himself calculus from textbooks found at the California Institute of Technology in balmy Pasadena, where his family had moved
by officemonkey 15y ago
>As a teenager Mr McCarthy taught himself calculus from textbooks found at the California Institute of Technology in balmy Pasadena, where his family had moved to from Boston because of his delicate health.
It's funny that the guy with 'delicate health' lived to 84.
- jarek 15y agoIt's fairly common for sickly children to end up normally healthy as adults these days. As a child, I used to catch bronchitis so much that it became the default diagnosis for a while, and I get four colds a year now.