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...millionaires; their salaries run about three times as high as those of officers in competing commercial banks. Hundreds of young men have ridden to riches in the long postwar bull market. John F. Donahue, 41, a West Pointer and former SAC pilot, did so well selling mutual funds door-to-door that in 1955 he decided to form his own fund, Federated Plans. He is now worth...
Engelhardt welcomes every question. 'It's the people who don't come to the meetings that concern me," he says. Once he plodded door-to-door in rural W. Hampshire to explain his plans in iving rooms. Recently he helped persuade residents of Greenwich, Conn., hat they could afford a new high school costing $11,800,000. Even Indiana's less affluent Lawrence Township approved Engelhardt's $5,000,000 high school. "It's air-conditioned and has a swimming pool; yet we didn't have any kind of friction...
...election effort is distinctly low-key. Thus far he has spent $100 and done almost no door-to-door campaigning. In contrast, James McGovern '64, making his first try for the Council, estimates that he will spend close to $5000 before...
Broadening Choice. Mohn grew rich by adapting to West Germany a U.S. success: the mass-market book club. He persuaded the closely bound fraternity of 5,000 book dealers and door-to-door book salesmen to solicit memberships by offering the solicitors plump 41½% commissions on each volume sold to any member they signed up. While his competitors concentrated on small editions of intellectual literature, Mohn brought out volumes with mass appeal from encyclopedias to schmalz. Applications rolled in-80% of them from young people who had never before read books outside of school. Mohn...
...these California Republicans-the same people who vote for Thomas Kuchel in his primaries and for Richard Nixon against Joe Shell-to vote for him? White explains it in terms of Rockefeller's baby arriving the weekend before the primary, and of a Goldwater campaign that sent housewives door-to-door, meeting each other-but why did the housewife system work in June and not in November...