After service in the Navy, he earned an economics degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1948 and an MBA degree from Columbia University two years later. While working as a securities analyst at Sutro Brothers in New York, Mr. Chazen got a call from a Wisconsin classmate whose family owned an apparel maker. He was soon launched as a traveling garment salesman, driving to small-town shops in Indiana and Illinois, the start of a thorough education in the rag trade.
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