On the verge of going broke, Stew met a fellow Inchon vet at a Knights of Columbus bingo fund-raiser who just happened to be a supervisor at General Electric. The fellow Korean Warrior, he had been a supply sergeant who had never left Seoul, was impressed by the fact that Stew could carry two pony kegs of beer, one on each shoulder, and as they drank themselves into a sloppy, sentimental stupor, the man declared that he owed it to the Pope himself to do all he could to help his wartime buddy. Then he threw up.
On the verge of going broke, Stew met a fellow Inchon vet at a Knights of Columbus bingo fund-raiser who just happened to be a supervisor at General Electric. The fellow Korean Warrior, he had been a supply sergeant who had never left Seoul, was impressed by the fact that Stew could carry two pony kegs of beer, one on each shoulder, and as they drank themselves into a sloppy, sentimental stupor, the man declared that he owed it to the Pope himself to do all he could to help his wartime buddy. Then he threw up.
"You really think I got to be the third largest shoe retailer in the Tri-state area by not knowing my competition? You know what they say about the shoe business, boys...tongues wag!"
"You really think I got to be the third largest shoe retailer in the Tri-state area by not knowing my competition? You know what they say about the shoe business, boys...tongues wag!"
