My father was a subdivider of real estate. Of course in 1929 that part of his business just completely collapsed. Nobody wanted to buy lots because they were going to build anything.

Most of my young life of lived in Oakwood, Ohio which is a suburb of Dayton. Throughout my life I worked almost exclusively as a real estate broker but there was a short period right after I graduated from Ohio state university when I worked as an advertising assistant in Decatur, Illinois.

When I graduated I went to work for the National Cash Register Company for a year. Then I stop that and went to Ohio state university. I think I probably entered Ohio State in about 1938.

I was in Ohio State for two years, and then I got a motorcycle. I had a bad accident that crushed my right arm and gave me a compound fracture of the right leg.

I went back to Ohio State in about 1940.