He began school6 months of kindergarten. the second grade. the fourth grade. then sixth grade. all in 2 years. He went to work as a farm laborer. as a water boy on a road crew with his father. as a delivery truck driver. and then. in 1931. a operator of a gas station. Margies parents. Frank and Nancy Testa. had met and married in Italy. They immigrated to Woodbridge. CT. where Frank became a farm laborer and Nancy a maid for "wealthy Yankees." Soon they were able to rent a small farm. where Margie was born. Margie attended a oneroom school in Woodbridgewhere she graduated first in her classand then Hillhouse High School in New Haven.
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