1. They would sell 220 dozen balls for a total of $1,200.
2. Warren Buffett letter to Howard Buffett, February 16, 1950.
3. He asked Howard to advance him $1,426 that the broker required him to keep on deposit, signing off, “Yours, for lower auto profits, Warren.” Warren Buffett letter to Howard Buffett, February 16, 1950.
4. Warren Buffett letter to Jerry Orans, May 1, 1950, cited in Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
5. “Bizad Students Win Scholarships,” Daily Nebraskan, May 19, 1950.
6. Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949.
7. Garfield A. Drew, New Methods for Profit in the Stock Market. Boston: The Metcalf Press, 1941.
8. Robert D. Edwards and John McGee, Technical Analysis of Stock Market Trends. Springfield, Mass.: Stock Trend Service, 1948.
9. Wood, as cited in Lowenstein, Buffett. Wood is deceased. He told Lowenstein he was not sure when this conversation took place—before Buffett was rejected by Harvard or as late as after when he had started at Columbia—but it was apparently before he met Graham himself.
10. According to Buffett, Howard Buffett was acquainted with one of the board members.
11. Columbia University in the City of New York, announcement of the Graduate School of Business for the winter and spring sessions 1950–1951, Columbia University Press.