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Chickens on the Third Floor. Pipe-smoking Publisher Nicholson* has been all over the newspaper shop. He started as a newsboy, later reported for the Richmond (Ind.) Item, was a youthful foreign correspondent after World War I, managed the Japan Advertiser in Tokyo, cleaned up the New York Graphic. He and David E. Smiley own the Tampa Times...
...National Theaters, one of the three biggest U.S. chains, and George, 49, head of Skouras Theaters Corp. (85 houses), he controls a large chunk of it. The Skouras brothers climbed together. All were born in Skouro-chorion, Greece (meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters' Hotel. They soon saved enough to buy a nickelodeon and a second-hand wrestling mat. They made money running the movie nights and kept...
Quick Growth. If Ambassador Joe had a motto, it might well be Operando Tutus, Secure by Operating. Joseph Patrick Kennedy's father came over from Ireland, became the mellow-voiced boss of Ward 2 in East Boston. Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental observation: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime...
...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...
Burleigh's mother put herself through college, expecting to become a school teacher. Turned down because of her color, she became the housemaid of a wealthy Erie music lover. Between jobs as a houseboy, newsboy, lamplighter, etc., young Harry attended Erie concerts...