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...Ohio Methodist with only six years of formal education who left his job as a trolley-car operator in Columbus and drifted to Southern California in search of warmer weather. After Frank married Hannah in 1908, he was barely able to scrape by as a citrus-fruit farmer, grocer and gas-station owner. A neighbor described Frank Nixon as "brusque, loud, dogmatic...
...Know what he was? He was a streetcar motorman first. And then a farmer. And then he had a lemon ranch. It was the poorest lemon ranch in California, I can assure you. He sold it before they found oil on it [laughter]. And then he was a grocer. But he was a great man, because he did his job and every job counts up to the hilt regardless of what happens...
...Millionaire Grocer b. Financier c. Controversial...
...dinner. Not all forced landings turn out so well. Industrial Engineer George Asdel recalls putting down at a military base where nuclear weapons were stored; he was greeted by machine guns and kept under armed guard for five hours. "We are always in trouble," says Dan Danieli, a grocer who practices his best manners on surprised hosts. "We get so humble you wouldn't believe it." Even with unplanned landings, boosters like TWA Jumbo Jet Pilot Robert Buck maintain that soaring is no more hazardous than flying in a commercial airliner...
...Rodney Becker and two other couples have driven 90 miles from Turtle Lake, Wis. Becker, a grocer, brings not only food and liquor for 40 friends but also a Xeroxed schedule of Sunday's events: "Wake 8 a.m.-Green Bay fans calisthenics; 8:30 a.m.-Viking fans calisthenics." Wine drinking and "rest" come next, leaving three hours for a breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausage and more wine...