Word: agent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fischbach, onetime counsel for a House subcommittee investigating crime in the District of Columbia. At Fischbach's request, Cheasty flew to Washington, where Fischbach explained that Teamster Hoffa needed some "special help" in connection with the McClellan committee's investigation. Hoffa, said Fischbach, wanted to plant an agent on the McClellan committee staff and Jack Cheasty, a former Secret Service agent, Internal Revenue agent, and naval intelligence commander (he retired in 1952 with a $5,500 disability pension after a heart attack), seemed to have the investigating credentials for landing the committee job. Said Cheasty tersely...
...defeat by Mrs. Nearing left him wondering what to do with the remainder of his sudden fame. In any case, he intends to stay at Columbia. But he has been deluged with outside offers from radio, TV and Hollywood, now needs an agent to handle the requests. Van Doren claims to have made no commitments about his future in show business other than to sign up for the first program of NBC Radio's revival of Conversation on March 21, which will be moderated by his good friend Critic Clifton Fadiman. What does Van Doren plan to charge...
...came word that the bodies on the beach were those of two unidentified auto-accident victims. In jail Fenton was interviewed by a U.S. newsman, who gave him a glass of tequila to calm his nerves. Fenton broke the glass, slashed his wrists. Mercilessly, police grilled the remorseful travel agent far into the night-until at last he broke down, confessed in full. At week's end, Luis Fenton's trusting American friends were still missing, but divers hope to bring them home from his guided tour soon...
...arranged another boat trip to "a very unusual nightclub" that he was sure his friends would enjoy. This time he brought along Daniel Rios, a waiter at their hotel. On the way, as the old couple sat restfully in the stern of the boat, the waiter and the travel agent stepped back to chat. Just as the tourists looked up, they were attacked and beaten to death with a baseball bat and a length of chain. The guests were stripped of money and about $18,000 in jewels, their bodies wrapped in chains. Then the hosts dumped them overboard...
There is nothing of the soft sell in the Pru's old-fashioned salesmanship. Like Fuller Brushmen, each agent has 300 to 400 families to cover. The Pru man gently but bluntly reminds his customer of the need for a "cleanup" fund to handle funeral expenses, explains what social security and company pension plans will provide. He asks his prospect if he wants to leave his family a home or just a mortgage; He talks about education for the children. "Invariably," says one Pru executive, "the worried prospect lays down a program he can't possibly afford." Then...