[T1S1] parents' background; father's mercantile business; parents' marriage; family's move from Ohio to Detroit; his service in the Army Training Corps in 1918; moves to Detroit to join his brother in a furniture business; religious observance in parents' home; recollections of high school education; cultural influences in his life; discussion of his career in the furniture business; expansion of the business; effects of the stock market crash of 1929; becomes director American Furniture Association; moves to Pittsburgh in 1930 to work with Leo Lehman for May Stern and Company; his service in Strategic Air Command during WWII; death of his partner, Leo Lehman.