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When she was 9, Charlene, her parents and her seven siblings moved to Chicago, where her father worked as a Pullman porter and a hod carrier.

He worked as a coal-bagger and then a hod carrier as a young man to help supplement his family’s income, building formidable upper-body strength.

If a man don’t understand latin now a daze, he kant hardly enjoy the conversashun ov a hod carrier.

At various times he was a hod carrier, a logger in Alaska, a stock clerk, a truck driver, a manager of a hot-sheet motel and a gym instructor.

Holmes made the headlines that day because he had funded his Olympic effort by working as a hod carrier.