Chapter 1-1 

Dad was a tall man with a large head jowls and a Herbert Hoover collar. He was no longer slim he had passed the two hundred pound mark during his early thirties and left it so far behind that there were times when he had to resort to railway baggage scales to ascertain his displacement. But he carried himselfwith the self assurance of a successful gentleman who was proud of his wife proud of his family and proud of his business accomplishment.