He kept goats, built a lawn, sold eggs, went fishin’, broke all the street lamps on East Livingston Avenue in Colum- bus, Ohio. At the age of sixteen he was five hundred miles from home, racing automobiles on dirt tracks in Long Island. Within a few years he was nationally famous as an automo- bile racer.
By the time he was 25 he had trav- eled throughout the country selling automobiles and was about to go to England to internationalize his oper- ations. He had meanwhile acquired a degree in automotive engineering—by correspondence. He had helped his mother and his six brothers and sis- ters get their feet on the ground, financially. He had carved his father’s headstone.
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