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Recently Posted American Stories
Unwed Fathers
Manny Cardona seeks out teenage fathers and leads them back to the families they created. He gets their girlfriends medical attention. Guides them off welfare. And tries to keep them in school.
Cardona was once like them, an unwed teen father, who put himself through college, got a masters degree and a job at the Bridgeport, Connecticut, YMCA. Manny represents something in short supply this neighborhood. Success.
Anti-smoking Tobacco Heir
Anti-smoking Tobacco Heir
In the 1980’s Americans started smoking fewer cigarettes for the first time since 1913, that’s when R.J. Reynolds took a picture of a circus camel and stuck it on the side of a pack. Six years later, nearly half of the people in America who smoked cigarettes, smoked that one brand — Camels. His ads were the first to link smoking with the good life. That didn’t just sell cigarettes. That made them part of our culture. NBC’s first TV newscast gave them to lucky viewers.
One of R.J. Reynold’s grandsons, Patrick, twisted those advertising techniques to get people to stop smoking.
Scoop City
Scoop City
Focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. That’s the key to a long and happy career. I learned that lesson in a small city, half way between St. Louis and Kansas City, where stories seldom go untold.
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