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...poor coal miner, Graves was born (1896) in Warrensburg Mo., left school to work in the mines at ten, switched to sheepherding, put in a stint in the Wyoming oilfields. But Graves was never satisfied to work for someone else. He saved enough money to buy a truck, parlayed it into a fleet of seven and sold out for $60,000. With the cash he bought a sheep ranch of his own-and was wiped out when a blizzard killed his herd...
Arizona-born Hector Escobosa drew his first bead on the business world as a schoolboy window dresser (at no pay) for San Francisco's cavernous Emporium. While attending the University of California nights, he moved on to sales promotion and dress buying at Hale Brothers, and after a stint as vice president and manager of Kansas City's big-volume Jones department store, became boss...
Pete's" gin-drinking night life finally finished him in Philadelphia. He was dealt to the Chicago Cubs after the 1917 season, and after a brief stint as a sergeant in the A.E.F. came back to win 123 games for them in seven seasons. But Old Pete and Cub Manager Joe McCarthy were unable to see eye to eye on training regulations, so Alex the Great was sold for the waiver price ($4,000 at the time) to the Cardinals...
Four years later, at 43, Old Pete was finally washed up and tragically on the downgrade. He tried the minors, did a stint with the bearded baseball barnstormers of the House of David and constantly talked of a comeback. At 50 he was still pitching semi-pro ball. In 1940, two years after he had become the ninth man voted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, he was discovered by a newspaperman on Manhattan's 42nd Street, working in a flea circus. Quipped Old Pete: "It's better than having 'em live...
...Real Service." Last week, when William Todhunter Hall got through his weekly stint, a real-life college president -Frederick L. Hovde, of Purdue University-came to the microphone. On behalf of the national fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, Hovde presented the Colmans with a scroll in "appreciation for your accurate and intelligent delineation of campus life ... a real service to education...