office boy

When he was demobbed in 1946, he said he got the only job he could: "office boy" at the Inland Revenue office in Luton, where his wife worked at the Vauxhall car factory.

Having started work aged 16 as an office boy in Trafford Park, he went on to become a director of a building firm in Salford.

The Davies family’s inherited wealth was derived from Ralph K. Davies, who began at Standard Oil of California as a 15-year-old office boy and rose to become the youngest director in the company’s history.

But after his discharge, a girlfriend told him that The Times was looking to hire an office boy in the photography department for $30 a week.

His parents could not afford to send him to college, but he attended night classes at the University of Chicago while working as a proofreader and office boy for The Chicago Sun-Times.