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Harace Smart 'Bud' Beattie
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... Bud Beattie, who retired as vice-president of engineering, Office Products Division of the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation some twenty years earlier, passed away at his thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington, Kentucky.
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... Bud Beattie joined IBM in June 1933 as a customer serviceman. By this time he was a graduate of the Hotchkiss School, had a B.A.
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... In a 1986 article on office communications, USA Today said Mr. Beattie "changed the office landscape forever." Bud spent his retirement years with his wife, Lois, alternating between his winter home in Florida and his thoroughbred farm outside Lexington.
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