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The Big Picture of Business – Tribute to a Great Mentor. Remembering Cactus Pryor.

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Mine was legendary humorist and media figure Cactus Pryor. His father, Skinny Pryor, owned a movie theatre and entertained audiences with comedy routines during intermissions. That was a cue for the studio DJ to play a commercial for the Career Shop, a clothing retailer. That first great mentor sticks with you always.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

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This article is about: Lessons that I learned to last a lifetime. My entertainment mentors were Cactus Pryor and Bob Gooding. The second was at what was the fourth KFC franchise to open in the United States. ” KFC was a watershed in my career (at that point 21 years long). The year was 1959. No, he never returned.