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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Watson, Thomas John, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The son of Thomas John Watson, Sr., the founder of the International Business Machines Corp. (IBM), he joined the family business following his graduation from Brown Univ. in 1937. |
 | | Except for service as a pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II, he spent the rest of his career at IBM, becoming company president (1952-61), chairman (1961-71), and chairman of the executive board (1972-79). |
 | | Moby-Dick and John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark. |
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