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Bathtub Dreamer. "Bob" LeTourneau, who does not drink or smoke and flies some 200,000 miles a year in his private planes, spreading the Lord's word, combines his evangelism with hard-headed business sense. Born in Richford, Vt., he was still a boy when his family moved to the West Coast. He quit school after the seventh grade, made his first money selling pictures of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. He learned mechanics as a grease monkey in a garage, later set up his own earth-moving and contracting business at Stockton, Calif, on a loan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Partnership with God | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piety & Profits | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Born in Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Titan | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Duane c. barnes, of Richford, Vermont, instructor in French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Lecturer on Cosmic Physics | 10/22/1935 | See Source »

...seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whiskey | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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