Back in the late '50s, my dad had just gotten his first significant paycheck. That evening, Mom and he were admiring the cash on the kitchen table, when the Enc

Back in the late '50s, my dad had just gotten his first significant paycheck. That evening, Mom and he were admiring the cash on the kitchen table, when the Encyclopedia Brittanica salesman knocked. And that's all she wrote. By the time I was able to read, we had two separate complete editions of the Brittanica, and he'd read both through, A-Z.