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...exhilarating and heady experience for Dave Beck, a man who is fond of recalling that he had come up a hard and rocky road. He was born in Stockton, Calif, in 1894. His father, a Tennessee-born carpet cleaner named Lemuel Beck, brought his family to Seattle four years later, seeking a handhold on the better life. Lemuel Beck never found it. As his growing son soon discovered, he was the "world's worst businessman...
...into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...
...most disappointing early news concerned his hide: lighted cigarettes, dropped from upper windows, had no effect on him. But he obligingly developed a kind of reverse elephantiasis. His trunk took to sagging, and he had to be given repeated injections of air with a vacuum cleaner...
...kind and amount of certain items found in pockets reflect conditions in the outside world, say the cleaners. During the war, quantities of sugar would perpetually fall on the floor when pockets were turned inside-out, and once a cleaner discovered, in a colonel's tunic, confidential information about troop movements...
...kept himself alive as a dishwasher, engine cleaner, grape picker, ranch hand and art photographer-and studied painting at night. "I have done nearly everything except commercial art," he recalls, "but it is not true when they say I worked as a butler...