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Open to Argument. Arriving in California at age 17 with $80 in his pocket, Nebraska-born Sam Yorty went to the University of Southern California and Southwestern University Law School, worked at jobs ranging from auto salesman to haberdasher, passed the California bar in 1936, and that same year was elected to the California legislature. In his early political days, Yorty was a shocking-pink liberal, much in demand as a speaker for leftist causes. Since then-in the course of three terms in the state assembly and two in the U.S. House of Representatives-Yorty has changed. But even...
...gifted students picking up $5 a night for appearances with dance bands. The money, Al decided, lay outside the long-haired classics, and with the aid of Harry James and Roy Eldridge records, he turned himself into a jazz musician. Still, he had to eke out a living as salesman for an exterminating company...
Befriending the Bank. The son of a traveling salesman, Missouri-born David Murdock quit school in the tenth grade to go to work, was paying his own way even before that. Says he: "I can remember mowing lawns when I was so small I couldn't get both hands up to the lawn-mower handle." After a World War II stint in the Air Force, he drifted into Phoenix with a young wife, a trailer, and a $12,000 stake he had earned running a short-order restaurant in Detroit...
...Bell now dwells in a small house trailer with his wife and four children near Olympia, Wash., earns $1.70 an hour in a Christmas tree nursery. Cowart was last reported working as a dishwasher in Alabama after being fired from jobs in a Cleveland restaurant and as a magazine salesman and truck driver in Texas and Oklahoma when employers learned of his past. Griggs, after getting a sociology degree from Texas' Stephen F. Austin State College and trying to peddle a book on his experiences, now lives with his mother near Jacksonville, Texas. And one of the trio...
Blake was born the son of a salesman for the Inland Steel Co. in St. Louis. "My father always taught a Sunday school class," he recalls. "Even when we moved around-to Winnetka or Bronxville-it was never more than a month before we were members of the local Presbyterian church. We had morning prayer each day at home, and of course we said grace at meals...