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Podcast: The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
Episode: 🎧 255: My grandfather, . . .
Description: 3In Which Herb Is Born to the Pipers of BostonMY GRANDFATHER, Herb Piper, was born in Boston, into a family that was broke. For generations, the Pipers had exhibited two outstanding characteristics: a cool-headed talent for selling and a gullible ineptitude for investing. It was quite possible for a Piper to accumulate a tidy nest egg over the course of a week of selling and lose it in an hour by buying into a scheme that he thought would double his money overnight — a land deal, say, that he had overheard two fe...