我离开了纽波特,在纽波特的教训使我的自豪感受到了一些伤害。但我从出让本·富兰克林商店中赚了5万多美元。整个事情也许是件好事,使我有了一个重新开始创业的机会,而这次我知道该怎么干了。现在我32岁了,已是一个羽毛丰满、经验丰富的商人,我所需要的就是拥有一家店铺。1950年春天,海伦、孩子们和我开始驾车到各地察看,认真地物色店铺。我们发现阿肯色州的西北部对我们很有吸引力,这里有几个原因:对海伦来说,那里比纽波特更接近她的亲友。对我来说也是很理想的,那里正好是俄克拉何马、堪萨斯、阿肯色和密苏里等4州的交界处,这使我在这4个州内一年四季都 I left Newport and the lessons in Newport hurt my pride. But I made more than $ 50,000 from the Ben Franklin store. The whole thing may be a good thing, so I have a chance to start a business again, and this time I know how to do it. Now that I am 32 years old, I am a full-fledged, experienced businessman and all I need is a store. In the spring of 1950, Helen, the children and I started driving around to look around and seriously look for stores. We find the North West of Arkansas attractive to us for several reasons: For Helen, there is closer to her relatives than Newport. Ideally for me as well, it was exactly where the four states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and Missouri intersected, keeping me in the four states all year long