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...past nine years the man who has really made Pepsodent click as a company has been a young character right out of Horatio Alger: a small, blond, Leslie-Howardish man named Charles Luckman. "Chuck" Luckman, now 34, began working as a Kansas City newsboy when he was nine, worked his way through high school and the University of Illinois toward his boyhood dream of becoming an architect. When he graduated in 1931, he had not only an architect's license but also a marriage license. To pay for the consequences of the latter, he took a draftsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Irium-Plated Alger | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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