Joan Betty Henderson Johnson
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And that's the natural truth.
We started on TV in October of 71.
And that year, sales ended at, I believe, 11.2 million.
I started getting visits from representatives of stockbrokers.
And one company started talking to me about taking me public.
We went to New York and of course they just, you know, they put the red carpet out.
Yeah, it was really an extraordinary time.
People were just buttering us up all over the place.
We went on a vacation to New York City, and we passed by a Rolls-Royce dealer, and she looked in and saw a white convertible, Rolls-Royce with red interior, and said, I'd like to have that car.
And I bought it for him.
We wanted to be out front and give a good, honest report.
And that was not smart.
Because the white companies didn't know what we were doing until we issued that report.