Yeah, I know he went national at 37, but his first tome (and big nationwide exposure) was at 41.
Posted on 07/01/2006 7:35:41 AM PDT by Bon mots
Oh, and Sam Houston was in his forties when he led the Texan Army to victory at San Jacinto.
There is another book about people who made it 'big' after 40. I will try to track down the name. It was about people who were moderately successful - not necessarily becoming billionaires.
One of the people in it was a local television hostess who had never been before the cameras until she was 40. If I find more information I'll post it.
Thanks. I never heard of Louis Kahn. Strange story. Somehow got a job as a professor of architecture at Yale (1947), yet never actually built anything until at least five years later.
His first major work came when he was 50 years old. The Art Gallary at Yale University (1951–1953), the first significant commission of Louis Kahn and his first masterpiece, replete with technical innovations, like a floor slab system giving access to mechanical systems, and a somewhat 'brutalist' shock to Yale's neo-Gothic context.
I've been by and in that building many times. It never struck me as a work of art in itself. I'll have to revisit one of these days.
Louis Kahn died penniles, or rather deep in debt. However, the standard of success for architects is somewhat different in that their legacy graces the landscape for centuries and thus, the financial aspects of their condition at their death are overlooked.
Good find.
Gallary = Gallery
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typo day
Good luck on that. I started my book when I was 32, I am 61 now and hope to be finished reading it in a few more years.
I turn 40 this Thursday. So, unless I manage to revise, submit, get accepted, and have published a novel in the next 5 days, it looks like any success I have, at least in the public eye, will be after 40.
Sam Walton was 43 years old when he started Wal-Mart.
Actually, the McDonald brothers started McDonald's restaurants (the first was opened in San Bernardino in 1940; Mr. Kroc opened the ninth one as a franchise.) Mr. Kroc finally bought them out later, in 1961. Also, see the current Wikipedia entry for Ray Kroc, the answers.com entry for Ray Kroc, and the Wikipedia entry for McDonald's Corporation.
Mark Twain was in his thirties before he was published nationally. He hit his stride in his forties, and was 49 when "Huckleberry Finn" was published.
Yeah, I know he went national at 37, but his first tome (and big nationwide exposure) was at 41.
Sister Marion Irvine, my *hero* (heroine).
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" ... The story of Sister Marion Irvine amazed us all. Sister Marion did not start running until 47 years of age. She was overweight and smoked two packs a day. She started out half-running and half-walking. In 1984, she qualified for the Marathon Olympic Trials at the age of 54. ..."
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>>>>That was a record that still stands, for the oldest person to ever qualify for the Olympic Trials in the Marathon. I heard Sr. Marion speak in a small group about 2 years after that - and was so moved, I've never forgotten her. She has set every speed record for her age group and is now 71 - and still running, most likely.
When I heard her speak, she was the fastest woman in the world for her age, 57. She probably still is, but I haven't checked on her lately. When she described starting out as a smoker and overweight, how her first try was to the mailbox and every day for a week she walked/jogged to that mailbox until one day she went a little further and did that distance for a week and so on, I knew I could do that, too.
She is truly inspirational.
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