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By Robert Josephy
First variation. Biography of Robert Josephy, construction supervisor and fashion designer for Alfred Knopf and different publishers, and president of the ebook and journal Guild. Illustrated. the rest mark on backside aspect. x, 225 pages. textile, airborne dirt and dust jacket. octavo.
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He enjoyed himself enormously, quarreling with his immigrant tenants. Most of them operated small sweat-shops in the days before the Ladies' Garment Workers Union brought economic order and economic justice to that industry. I cannot say that Grandpa's natural goodwill and tolerance ex- Page 5 David Spero tended to these new rough-diamond Americans struggling for a share of the dream that had brought them from European ghettos. Grandpa certainly did not come from a prosperous family, and he must have started life with few class prejudices.
There was actually very little that was really martial about Freehold. We wore uniforms, Spanish-American War style, and we drilled with older cadets from a school across town, but we were allowed to be children. I don't recall that being away from home distressed me at all. Freehold was a pleasant, quiet town, the center of what was then one of the most fertile New Jersey farm areas. There was a big Monmouth County fair each fall, with trotting races, and we knew where to find holes under the fences.
I can only guess at the early effect of his powerful parents on his character and personality. Their first-born, he joined his father in business at seventeen or eighteen and lived with them until he married at twenty-four. He was a handsome man, rather Latin in ap- Page 13 pearance, like his father. He loved horses, was a good rider, and strove all his life to be known as a horseman. He cared a great deal about his attire, but he made his good taste into an assertion of superiority. He had a veneer of self-confidence but little talent for relaxed relations with intimates or strangers.