Real Men Don't Eat Credit

December, 1986

This is my lucky day. I've just received a letter from Citibank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I hadn't realized I was so well known in South Dakota, but evidently James L. Bailey has heard of me. He wants me to apply for the Citibank Preferred VISA Card. As a senior vice-president of Citibank, Bailey is offering me an initial $5000 line of credit that is expandable to $50,000. He writes that this offer is "for a very select group of people. People like you, who handle credit very responsibl...