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Standley honored for life’s work in retail industry
John Standley’s road was long and winding, but the direction was always upward. Early lack of ambition — his father applied to college for him — did not prevent Standley from ascending to the very heights of chain drug retailing, first as chief executive officer of Rite Aid, and then as president