http://qui.live.mediaspanonlinen.com/rss/ Quincy Herald Whig en-us I always find it amusing when I hear that someone who achieved a lot of success in his life was once denigrated by a teacher, parent or boss. Melvin Jerome Blank fits into this category because he had a high school teacher who told him that he would amount to nothing -- that he would be like his last name, a blank. So he changed his last name when he was 16. He spent most of his adult life with animals: A duck, a rabbit, a cat, a rooster, a pig, a bird, a coyote and so on. You get the picture. But there was nothing wrong with him. In fact, the rabbit probably saved his life after he was in a near-fatal car accident. http://qui.live.mediaspanonline.com/new_story/Niemann-Column-MON-6-30