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John F. (for Francis) Kennedy came out of a Gillette Safety Razor stockroom last fall to be elected Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by nearly 200,000 votes. He did not have much education (seventh grade plus some night courses) or experience (he had graduated from the WPA to stockroom clerk), but his name on the ballot looked just like that of popular and able U.S. Senator John F. (for Fitzgerald) Kennedy...
Kohen showed him to an upstairs stockroom filled with paintings, told him to take his pick. "You've got too damn many pictures here," said the President ruefully as he started looking them over...
Oregon-born Garrett got into aircraft in 1928 as a 50?-an-hour stockroom clerk, became the "purchasing department" for Jack Northrop, a fellow worker, when Northrop started his own company. But Garrett wanted to be his own boss, too. In 1936, when West Coast plane builders were having trouble getting the kind of tools they wanted, he set up shop as a middleman supplier...
...with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...
...student in the hayfield or the stockroom it was a personally relevant war. If you were a reservist living in a number of states or holding a number of ratings this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...