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Word: 120s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...slickness), prospected in the Mojave Desert (where all he got was sunstroke), shoveled coal in Utah and Pennsylvania, bummed. Once, arriving in Eugene, Ore. with 5?, he talked local businessmen into backing a sporting goods store, gave golf lessons to drum up trade. He played in the low 120s. In 1928 he landed a job in a San Francisco bond house; by 1930 he was Anglo California National Bank's resident manager in New York. He was 22 then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Smart Squirt | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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