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West from Georgia. As the first patron of art in super markets, Charlie Crouch had come a long way from his poverty-ridden Augusta (Ga.) boyhood. "We used to work several months to make enough for a pair of shoes," he says, "and had them half-soled so many times your foot was an inch off the ground." Nourished on hard-won sow belly and corn pone, he swept up in cotton mills, ran errands, jerked sodas and sold papers until he caught the eye of Clarence Saunders, ex-Piggly Wiggly king. When Saunders went broke in 1931, Crouch...
...boss of Robbins is breezy, grey-haired Theodore Leavens, 46, who has thought up some of Robbins' best knickknacks. One item was inspired by a memory of his Montana boyhood near a mine with ore too poor to mine. Leavens put out a ring with a chunk of "real gold...
...friend, recalling Stoddard's boyhood in Carbondale, Pa., has called him "one of the finest by-products of the anthracite industry." When gregarious George was a Penn State undergraduate, the only way his mother knew how many visiting fraternity brothers would be down for breakfast during vacations was to count the strange hats on the hall tree...
...plays against the white community with loaded dice, and his chief means of supporting the colored is to go all-out in discriminating against the white. When Neil publicly confesses his Negro blood, and associates with Negroes, he loses every single one of the friends he has known since boyhood, his wife is the only woman who will stand by him, and there is not one employer in Grand Republic who will defy the outraged city fathers by giving him a steady job. Only in the last, melodramatic chapter-which reads like a climax by James M. Cain-does Author...
Mark grew up in Jacksonville, Fla. At 18, he went north, went to work as an accountant for "a boyhood idol," Thomas Edison. At 19, he got a better job with American Telephone & Telegraph, which then owned Manhattan's WEAF...