![]() Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.Īnxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. ![]() When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. ![]() While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. Aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, M.C. ![]()
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True success is about me doing what God created me to do and becoming who he created me to be.” ![]() “I still want to be successful,” Hopkins said. “But God has redefined what success looks like for me. Today, Office Pride is a faith-based, nationally acclaimed franchise with 137 franchises. He worked out of his home, signing customers during the day and cleaning during the evenings. Years later, Hopkins developed the concept for Office Pride while in graduate school, and he started the company in 1992. Soon afterward, he and his brother, Troy, began selling black-eyed peas out of their pea patch. Hopkins said his first entrepreneurial venture was when he sold gum-balls in elementary school. 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