 He attended Dartmouth College, and on a dare, he jumped into a vat of starch that had frozen over during winter, which led to severe pneumonia.He withdrew from Dartmouth and moved to Los Angeles for his health.In Los Angeles, while working in the fruit fields, he started a small delivery company that soon became responsible for also delivering many of the city's morning newspapers, which put him in contact with "The Los Angeles Times" publisher Harrison Gray Otis.