It was a Saturday, and Papa Lanham made a brief appearance at his Rome department store, Lanham & Sons. I bet he got a hero’s welcome. “Business good today,” his son wrote. A Mr. Hays, who had stepped in to manage things while Mr. Lanham went to care for his father in New York, had treated the business “like it was his own.”
Mr. Lanham had missed home an…
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