Amarillo Globe in Amarillo, Texas

Teen entrepreneur and soldier paragon of ambition

A sixteen year old in Amarillo buys a seven passenger touring car to sell land tours for real estate men. He earns an average of 200 dollars a month while finishing high school and later builds a successful auto business before entering Virginia Military Institute and the University of Texas. He funds college himself, never drawing on his father, and earns the highest leadership rating of ninety four while serving as Phi Kappa Psi steward and private secretary to ex Chief Justice Gaines. He later enters an officers training camp as the nation enters war.