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...Tailor Jones switched from pantsmaking to the policy racket and made Ted Roe his first "runner," i.e., salesman of lottery chances. Protected by the Kelly-Nash machine, Jones was making $2,000 a day by 1930, $10,000 a day by 1938. Ted Roe got fat cuts of the fat profits...
...Negro sharecropper in Gallion, La., light-skinned Theodore Roe got no schooling and was pushed into the world without a nickel. But Ted was luckier than a gallon of Fast Dice Oil. Fate led him to Little Rock, Ark., where he did odd jobs for a tailor and learned to sew. With this education, he pushed on to Chicago and went to work for a Negro tailor named Edward P. Jones. And that put Lucky Ted on the express escalator to Easy Street...
They were not the only innovators. The custom builders (i.e., the higher-priced contractors who tailor a house to the tastes of individual buyers) borrowed tricks from the mass builders. Instead of putting up only a handful of houses a year, as they had before the war, many put up scores at a time...
...Swedish tailor, Henning began as a painter but found himself molding handfuls of stucco into tiny figures. The Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory offered him a job and for 16 years he turned out lifelike figurines...
...White Suit. Top-grade British movie yarn, with Alec Guinness in a tailor-made comedy role as the inventor of an indestructible fabric (TIME, April...