The young office girl was talking to a friend about her young man. "I’m doubtful about my Jim,” she said. “Why, whatever for?” asked the other. “Now he’s got a job on a big refrigerator,’ -said the first, "I’m afraid his love will grow cold!” Since he was excommunicated by the Amateur Athletic Union of America after the 1936 Olympics, Jesse Owens has done very well financially. First, he received £lO,OOO for campaigning for the Republican candidate for the Presidency, Alfred Landon. Then he was paid £l5OO to run against a racehorse in Havana. In addition he has his dance band and a profitable business, a cleaning and dyeing establishment in Cleveland.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1938, Page 9
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