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Word: bobcaygeon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical show. His own taste ran to sentimental "gypsy" music and Viennese waltzes which he would listen to with the tears running down his plump cheeks. There is reason to believe that Carload Ritchie died on the threshold of a vaster career. Born in the hamlet of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, he used to hang around the local hotel as a schoolboy, eagerly watching the smart traveling salesmen. When he became a salesman himself, it was as a commission agent for more & more old British grocery and drug houses. In 1928 he startled the conservative Britishers in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Death Comes for the Salesman | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

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