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...Lurleen was a dime store clerk who married at 16, do we have a high school dropout for Governor...
Making the Harvard Square bookstore rounds in May of 1964, you would have come across a cheap-looking mimeographed publication called The Pageant of the Beasts, by Anonymous. Selling (in fact best-selling) for a dime, it told of a forest full of animals who put together a pageant in honor of White Swan, a local poet laureate whose 40th birthday...
...Kresge noticed that Woolworth's 19 stores were profitably run on a cash-only basis, the traveling salesman thought he saw his future. In 1897, despite a financial panic, he used his savings for a half interest in stores in Memphis and Detroit run by another five-and-dime pioneer, John G. McCrory. Two years later, Kresge bought out the Detroit store and began his own business. It was an instant success, partly because Kresge was willing to work 20-hour days and put all his money back into the enterprise, partly because he was a whiz at spotting...
Kresge knew well how to pinch pennies-or at least nickels and dimes. He bought his clothes off the ready-to-wear racks, traveled in a Pullman upper berth because the fare was lower than for the lower. He allowed himself the luxury of a 10? shoeshine, but stopped after his shoeshine boy raised the price to 15?. Colleagues once persuaded him to take up golf as a hobby, along with beekeeping he had enjoyed since boyhood, but he soon gave up the game because he lost too many golf balls. Invited to speak at the 1953 dedication of Harvard...
...late in 1964, Manager Roy Silver took Joan in tow. "He cut out every piece of esoterica," she recalls, "a lot of the homosexual references, a lot of the ethnic references. For 51 years, I had been telling jokes about my Kafkaesque past. I didn't make a dime, so now I'm looking for universals...