The author, George Grotz, 44, started out as a spare-time furniture refinisher, steeped himself in the subject for 15 years, wrote several books as well as a $1 pamphlet, From .
He had done an Army hitch, spent four years as an antique refinisher, been married and divorced before becoming a caddy.
A former university professor gets $139 a month as a floor refinisher; his wife, who was a teacher in Cuba, brings home $72 a month as a church-school playground supervisor.