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Foremost among the keepers of the barely flickering combinatorial flame was John
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Even at the end of my first year as a graduate student at
Cornell, in 1962, I managed to arrange a summer job at Bell Labs in Holmdel. This was still on minimal cost networks. During that summer I met another of my heroes, John Riordan, one of the great early workers in combinatorics. His
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is a classic. He was working at Bell Labs in West Street in
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