DUNCE WHO MADE GOOD
A LIGHTNING CALCULATOR When, cigbtv-one years ago, young Alfred Phillips "left school at the age of seven, his school mistress said: “ Goodbye, Alfred, I’m afraid you will always be a dunce, and never get much further than simple addition.” To-day Mr Alfred Phillips at the ripe age of eighty-eight, is the grand old man of Bognor Regis, Sussex. His energy shames many a youth in the town. He enjoys playing bowls to the tune of 18 to 21 ends up in the mornings, or' alternatively a round of golf. He cycles to the golf course. But, best of all, this “dunce” claims to be the “world’s quickest sterling decimalist.” He proved it recently when, replying to a question, he answered in several seconds that 3,675,000 times j[d was £11,484 7s Gd. He said he could mentally multiply by a million any sum under £lO. Thus it was found in six seconds that 1,000,000 times £8 16s 9id is £8,833,541 13s 4d. What a dunce I
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Evening Star, Issue 21241, 24 October 1932, Page 10
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169DUNCE WHO MADE GOOD Evening Star, Issue 21241, 24 October 1932, Page 10
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