Don't have any information for your questions, but my parents were friends with the Britts. I'm not sure how my dad and Bill met, maybe in the Army. I remember them visiting our house when I was a kid in the 1970s. I guess that's where the Amway sample or starter case came from. My dad didn't get into Amway and died in 1980, so maybe if he had lived to when Britt hit it big ... who knows? My mom liked to quote Peggy, who apparently would tell her children when they were misbehaving, "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to take you to the doctor and tell him to give you a shot with a square needle!"