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Article: SELLING SENT HIM ON PATH TO SUCCESS; THEN: MAGAZINE SALES; NOW: STATE ASSEMBLYMAN.(SERIES: Business 2002)(Business)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2002
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Byline: John Mariani Staff writer
The year was 1947, and 15-year-old Hal Brown was looking to make a few bucks.
The solution? Selling Liberty Magazine door-to-door in his neighborhood in Syracuse.
"That's going back," said Brown - now Harold C. Brown Jr., state Assemblyman for southern and western Onondaga County - about his first job.
"I don't know how I started. I don't know whether it was advertised in the newspaper. It could have maybe been one of my buddies had the route."
Brown was a sophomore at Central High School when he started selling Liberty to customers near his parents home at 718 DeWitt St. The weekly, ...