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...Best Risks. The man behind the phenomenal growth of the company is a lanky, cigar-smoking Florida salesman just turned 38. Jim Walter was a truck driver in 1946, when he saw a newspaper ad for a shell home for $1,195. It looked like a bargain, and he borrowed the money to buy it. It also looked like a good business, and he borrowed some more to go into partnership with the builder, O. L. Davenport. In 1948 he bought out Davenport for $49,000 and struck out on his own, finally in 1955 was big enough to form...
...something of a lucky political accident. "I've been in the right place at the right time, and that's the story of my life," says he, although he has also been in some wrong places. Born in Canada, son of a low commission cooky-and-tobacco salesman, he grew up in Port Huron, Mich., got his U.S. citizenship after he joined the Army fresh out of high school in 1943. In the assault upon Metz, Private First Class Swainson volunteered for a night patrol, set off in a Jeep. It ran over a land mine...
...Whitney & Co.), Acting OPAdministrator in 1945, chairman of the Ford Foundation's Advisory Committee, co-founder of the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools; of a heart attack; at his home in Fairfield, Conn. Soft-spoken Harvardman Brownlee ('13) got his start as a sugar salesman, then turned his talents to whisky (Four Roses'), gradually gravitated to public service and became a top authority on economic controls...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace though occasionally running ahead of Inge's harness...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs. William Inge's careful insights into the problems of an Oklahoma harness salesman and his troubled family are well illuminated in the screen version, with Robert Preston setting the acting pace though occasionally running ahead of Inge's harness...