By Robert Josephy

First variation. Biography of Robert Josephy, construction supervisor and dressmaker for Alfred Knopf and different publishers, and president of the ebook and journal Guild. Illustrated. the rest mark on backside facet. x, 225 pages. textile, dirt jacket. eightvo.

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Without any research I assumed that since most people had worshipped some sort of deity, there had to be a supernatural power. This schoolboy conviction did not long survive my later exposure to the outside world. Hard as I tried, however, I never overcame my self-consciousness on the platform until I was older and had something of my own to talk about. At Bordentown we did not have much free time, but in the cellar of my dormitory house I managed to reconstruct an old armchair rescued from a trash pile.

Big enough for his children and their friends and for any future offspring, the house was staffed by a large crew of underpaid women who had recently come from Ireland. All the furniture was wicker, and the curtains always seemed to me to smell like elephants. Having the run of such a house was a great experience for a small boy. Three years after it was built, Grandpa had the house moved another hundred feet back from the road because he thought it would look better that way. Our house and grounds were among the largest in the town, with gardens, stables, a tennis court, Page 3 and wide lawns, and it became a playground for my cousins and friends.

Henry Ford introduced the assembly line to the automobile industry, and, as everyone knows, the industry developed quickly. Soon cheap American cars were being made by the millions, and by the time I was fifteen I was driving one of the famous Model T Fords. Drivers' licenses were required only of chauffeurs and truck drivers. I had a Ford of my own two years later, and for the rest of my life I was never without a car and occasionally a second one. I began life in a sheltered, comfortable world into which the conflicts and stresses of existence could not penetrate, in which my happy family did not want them to be perceived.

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