Shane Parrish
speaker
20,679 appearances
49 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 15 Sep
Shane Parrish’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Twelve inches gave enough heat and light, but at less cost.
And twelve inches it became.
He was now in his nineties.
As his strength finally ebbed, he negotiated with it.
He cut his golf game from six holes a day to four, then to two.
Then after a bad cold in 1932, finally he gave it up for good.
He took off the silver wigs he'd been wearing daily for decades and never put them on again.
He now mounted a stationary bicycle in his room to keep his muscles in his legs and pedaled slowly.
He was a little man, now under 90 pounds, who had decided he was not done.
When he turned 96, his insurance company, honoring an old policy, had to pay him $5 million.
By the actual tables of the day, one out of 100,000 people lived as long as he had.
He did not reach 100.
He missed it by a little over two years.
On May 22nd, 1937, Rockefeller ran through his usual comedy routine with Miss Evans, his housekeeper.
She fished for a compliment.
"'Mr.
Rockefeller, you haven't said anything about how I look.'
He made a small bow from his chair.
"'Miss Evans, that's because I'm never able to do this subject justice.'
That same day, he paid off the mortgage on the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, the church whose congregation had approved of his very first wig.
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