JOHNNY RUN LATELY: The Life and Adventures of a Latter Day Sprint Champion

This is the true story of John Hurd, who was born in a tarpaper shack, the son of a sharecropper in Tennessee. He was the fourth of five children who lost their father in a highway incident when the youngest was barely two months old. With the help of relatives, the family held together until all had finished school and the two youngest obtained college degrees.

The story follows John through his service in the US Navy during the Korean War, his college experiences, and into the corporate wo...