It Was Fun!

It Was Fun!
Author: Beverly Nicholson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1463441908

Dan Picini, former CEO of the Duratest Corporation of New Jersey writes: Who is Morris E Nicholson? He is my friend Nick. Nick and I became neighbors by location and friends by choice. A wise man once wrote life is like a sieve which our acquaintances pass through; those who are too big to pass through become our friends. Nicks business was built with the help of friends much like Dan. He tried to employ those who had primarily a good work ethic and were smarter than he was. The same idea extended to customers. Dont have just a bunch of customershave (make) friends that buy from you! This book bears testimony to the fact that in America you can still rise from extreme poverty and a lack of formal education to achieve success and recognition in your chosen field. The entertainment business and those on Wallstreet would lead us to believe capitalism is evil and success comes only on the unwilling backs of those you trample as you rise to the top. Nicks story was written in part to refute this idea. You can play by the rules and help those working with you to succeed and prosper as well. Best of all It can be fun along the way. Over the years many employees made higher salaries than we were taking. Nick loved and encouraged it. This book is a tribute to those (as well as our children) who made Apollo Paper the success it became. Nick would be the first to say FAITH played a huge part in guiding him to do the right thing. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and losses his own soul. Mark 8:36

Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ

Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ
Author: Nicholas deB Katzenbach
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2008-10-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393070689

A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration. As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other issues of the day. In this engaging memoir, by turns intensely dramatic and charmingly matter-of-fact, we are treated to a ringside seat for Katzenbach's confrontation with segregationist governor George C. Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama, his efforts to steer the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through Congress, and then his transition to the State Department, where he served at the center of the storm over Vietnam. In the political climate of this election season, Some of It Was Fun provides a refreshing reminder of the hopes and struggles of an earlier era, speaking both to readers who came of age in the 1960s and to a generation of young people looking to that period for political inspiration.

It Was Fun While it Lasted

It Was Fun While it Lasted
Author: M H Major
Publisher: Major Press LLC
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1942473346

M H Major’s memoir and personal letters offer an insightful account of an ordinary man’s resilience, fear, hope, and mortality as he struggled to succeed as a wildcatter in South Texas during the fifties. One of four brothers ordered by their Depression-era father to become doctors, Millard was the only son to strike out as a geologist in a business he’d been taught to distrust. As World War II raged, finding new production was easy enough. But an oilman must discover new drilling prospects year after year. A long-time consultant geologist for the King Ranch, Major details his challenges to stay in the game long after production in South Texas began to play out and other geologists had left the field.

''It Was Fun''

''It Was Fun''
Author: Gary C. Salivar
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1465310061

Sports for youngsters have changed drastically in the last forty years. Gone are days when boys used to gather at a field on a summer day to play baseball from dawn to dusk; to make rules, argue, work out solutions, and continue play. They also participated in team sports, but not to the level of organization of youth sports today: all-star teams, travel teams for all ages, and a parental focus on making it to the big leagues. This book presents observations made over years of coaching, to raise thoughts for parents and coaches to consider what youth sports are today.

When Flying Was Fun!

When Flying Was Fun!
Author: Bill Eads
Publisher: America Star Books
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 163448519X

When Flying Was Fun! is an autobiographical collection of aviation anecdotes covering four decades of flying, starting with the sixties. These humorous and sometimes poignant stories are told from a first person perspective by the author, who was a Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War and spent over thirty years as an airline pilot with United Airlines. These memoirs relate to those days when pilots actually flew airplanes, before the days of “glass cockpits” and computer-operated flights. Those were the days when passengers dressed up in their Sunday finest for a trip to the airport to go on a flight that would take them on the adventure of their lives! This was a time when airline pilots and flight attendants looked and felt sharp as they strode to their airplanes with pride in their uniforms and the feeling that they truly were part of the most glamorous profession in America.

And I Have a Hat Too... Flying in the Fifties was Fun!

And I Have a Hat Too... Flying in the Fifties was Fun!
Author: Lari Harris Newbury
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 149
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1300475927

A brief glimpse into airline travel in the Fifties. The men, women and planes of that time, plus the international airports and destinations of the Pacific Division of Pan American World Airways.

Leaving Wishville

Leaving Wishville
Author: Mel Torrefranca
Publisher:
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781734174526

Ten years after his father's disappearance, 14-year-old Benji Marino plans to escape from town. With time against him, leaving Wishville might be his only chance for freedom - but it may also cost him his life. Recommended to fans of THE GIVER, this colorful and chilling debut dives into a sea of forbidden curiosity.

It Was Fun!

It Was Fun!
Author: Tony Rudd
Publisher: J.H. Haynes, (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000-06-19
Genre: Automobile racing
ISBN: 9781859606667

This book provides an insight into the world of high-performance engine development and grand prix racing. Tony Rudd motorsport engineer and team manager, descibes his years with BRM, then reveals the inside story of the Lotus organisation from 1969 to 1992, including the DeLorean saga.

Fun Home

Fun Home
Author: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2007
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780618871711

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.