d reader as well. At the age of 19, he took off to go to New York University, but quit after his junior year. At the age of 22, despite his educational background, he became the president of the family company. He was put in charge of everything except design of the houses and plan of Levittown. His younger brother Alfred, at 17, was put in charge of design as vice president. A key aspect of his limited education was the facts he leaned about mass production of houses as a Lieutenant in World War II. Williams's big break working with his father was when he was forced to take control of 40 unfinished houses on a plot of land that had been recently bankrolled by the Levitts. Abraham convinced William and his younger brother Alfred to team up to complete the construction job. Working with existing construction crews the Levitt sons learned the building business on the job, and the 40 houses were finished on schedule.
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