Word: collier
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MIDGLEY, Leslie, 54, CBS executive producer. Born in Salt Lake City, attended University of Utah. City editor, Salt Lake City Deseret News, 1935-40; night editor, New York Herald-Tribune Paris edition, 1944-49; associate editor, Collier's, 1949; managing editor, Look, 1952-54; producer, CBS News from 1954. Married (to Betty Furness), three children. Registered Democrat...
...subdivisions I worked were almost as horrifying as the Collier's sales pitch. There were flags everywhere-on poles, stuck on cars, even pasted to front doors. There were even more yapping dogs than there were flags. And at least three of the streets seemed to be named "Waco...
...would have loved to have given the developer of the subdivision a free set of encyclopedias for $600. Instead I wasted an hour of working time walking, in the streets because there were no sidewalks, to a shopping center for a Coke and a glass of lemonade. Collier's wouldn't have liked that...
...managing director of the Greater Louisville Better Business Bureau, Joe D. Proctor, feels that sales pitches like Collier's will be changed one way or the other...
...student who actually sold some encyclopedias for Collier's told me he doesn't think laws alone can make much difference, since the prospective customers seemed to expect the Collier's approach as a matter of course: "It gets you a little disgusted with people in general...