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Walter Bowes is 56, Walter H. Wheeler Jr., 42. Walter Bowes is nervous, restless; he hates a desk and office hours, prefers to putter about his home. Walter Wheeler is the reverse, has steady nerves and a passion for detail, likes to organize. One thing this antipodal pair have in common is a love of sailing. In 1929 Yachtsman Bowes sailed his six-meter Saleema to an international championship. In 1938 Yachtsman Wheeler won the Astor cup with his Q class Cottonblossom II. Messrs. Bowes and Wheeler have still another thing in common, their business—Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co. of...

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