Autobiographical memory recalled by Neville in his lectures. Year derived: age 18 + birth 1905 = 1923. Told 2 times (1965-1971).

At seventeen and a half he left the island for America uneducated, was turned down for a wire-stringing job with the telephone company for lacking educational background, and ended up working at J.

He notes that J.C. Penney, who died the past week leaving a fortune, was his first employer in America.