One of a Kind

One of a Kind , WILLIAM F. RICKENBACKER HE MORE I KNOW about my father’s extraordinary life the more extra- ordinary it seems to me. His parents emigrated from Switzerland. His Rickenbacker: An Autobiography, by Edward V. Rickenbacker. Pren-— tice-Hall, $7.95 father died when he was fourteen. He quit school and went to work. He would walk eight miles to save a nickel bus fare. The glass factory, the tombstone works, the buggy company took him on. He was always ready to quit and move on to another job, very often taking a cut in pay in order to broaden his experience, and always recouping the pay cut in short order.

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One of a Kind , WILLIAM F. RICKENBACKER HE MORE I KNOW about my father’s extraordinary life the more extra- ordinary it seems to me. His parents emigrated from Switzerland. His Rickenbacker: An Autobiography, by Edward V. Rickenbacker. Pren-— tice-Hall, $7.95 father died when he was fourteen. He quit school and went to work. He would walk eight miles to save a nickel bus fare. The glass factory, the tombstone works, the buggy company took him on. He was always ready to quit and move on to another job, very often taking a cut in pay in order to broaden his experience, and always recouping the pay cut in short order.