Henry Kissinger

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Apparently Henry Kissinger worked in a New York shavingbrush factory during his teens. Anybody know which one that was?

 

[efsk]

To answer my own question: found it over at B&B. Leopold Ascher Brush Corp apparently.

 

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Apparently Henry Kissinger worked in a New York shavingbrush factory during his teens. Anybody know which one that was?

Of course! Henry Kissinger knows! He is still alive. Just ask him.

SCNR...

If you ask ChatGPT it says...

There is no historical evidence to suggest that Henry Kissinger, the American diplomat and political scientist, ever worked for a shaving brush company.

Nonsense. Google Bard fairs better:

Henry Kissinger worked for the Leopold Ascher Brush Company in Manhattan. He worked there as a teenager from 1939 to 1940. He was responsible for making shaving brushes by hand.

And a quick google confirms this.

 

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Karger Lohn, fette Beute

Auch Top-Manager haben einmal klein angefangen - und viel aus ihren ersten Erfahrungen in der Berufswelt gelernt. Ob als Putzhilfe, Zeitungsausträger oder Bauarbeiter - das erste selbstverdiente Geld prägt die Karriere.

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PBS: Think Tank: Transcript for "Henry Kissinger at Large, Part One" www.pbs.org Henry KISSINGER: I was fifteen. Just fifteen. And we were sort of typical immigrants in the sense we didn’t have any money. So every member of the family worked and... Ben WATTENBERG: What did you do? Henry KISSINGER: I worked in a shaving brush factory. Ben Wattenberg: I have a scoop! Henry Kissinger: I worked in a shaving brush factory for five years. Ben WATTENBERG: Really? Henry KISSINGER: Working my way up from the manufacturing end - the low end of the manufacturing end--to shipping clerk, and from a salary of $11 a week to $15 a week. Was drafted into the army, where I served from 1943 through ’46.​