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after having spent a year working. He immediately joined A. T. & T. and,
a year later, married a Brooklyn girl, Alline L. Eno. They had one child.
Vernam was a clever young man— one of the stories about him has him
stretched on his couch each evening wondering aloud, "What can I invent
now?" He had the rare type of mind that can visualize an electrical circuit
and put it down on paper without having to try it out with wires. He did
so well in the telegraph section that its head, Ralzemond D. Parker,
assigned him to a special secrecy project. And late though he may have
been that winter morning, Vernam had brought a bright idea to work
with him. Quiet and unassuming, though with a droll sense of humor, he
probably put forth his suggestion with diffidence, but his co-workers on
the secrecy project saw at once that he had something.
The project had begun during the summer, a few months after war
had been declared, when Parker directed some of the telegraph section
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