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...worked as a short-order cook in the Blue Front Cafe. Eager to get on in the world, he quit Ferris after two years, moved to Ma Kelleher's boarding house in Flint, where he got room and board for $3 a week. He answered an AC Spark Plug want ad for a bookkeeper, was asked in the interview what his ambition might be. Said the brash young man to his future boss: "Your job, within a year...
...started going down in the plant and found out what determined his costs. He had to learn the technical side of the business, and he went out and learned it." Within a year after he was hired, at the age of 21, Curtice was made controller of AC Spark Plug...
...game birds are a tricky breed. As old Hunter Hemingway says, they all fly different ways. A man who can plug a teal zigzagging upward out of marsh grass may have a tough time sighting in on a flight of mallard drumming toward him. Learning to lead a speedy pintail is another trick entirely from following a wood duck through trees. For all the instruction a hunter may have had, all the trapshooting he may have done, lining up a wing shot, says one expert, "is something like learning how to balance peas on the edge of your knife...
...excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...
Nixon's mission, therefore, was to arouse the party professionals. Using Maine as his horrible example, Nixon pounded home the dangers of disunity and apathy. Trying out a line he was to use in other states along his campaign trail, Nixon advised the Ohio professionals to plug hard on Republican successes in dealing with "that four-headed monster that was Korea, Communism, corruption and controls...