After college, Mr. Lautenberg worked briefly as a life-insurance sales trainee, then joined two boyhood friends at Automatic Payrolls Inc.

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Nobody in the neighborhood had a beard or dressed in the antiquated Old World style or wore a skullcap either outdoors or in the houses I routinely floated through with my boyhood friends.

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