Word: hustler
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...boss and chief stockholder of Schenley Industries, Inc., Lewis Solon Rosenstiel built a $438 million empire and a reputation in the liquor trade as a confident hustler. During Prohibition, while distillers were folding up, Rosenstiel, then a whisky broker, bet his money on Repeal ; he bought up all the whisky he could lay his hands on. Result: the year after Repeal, his new Schenley company had sales of $40 million...
...Stalin, Communist, suddenly sounded for all the world like Old George Babbitt, Hustler...
Fadden, chief trainer for the Sox, is now working for the H.A.A. as varsity football trainer, and yesterday he stated that Boudreau was a "real hustler...
Horrible Example. The man who so unerringly kicked his fellow males in the breadbasket is Elmer Wheeler, 47-year-old professional phrasemaker and hustler of slick selling techniques. Salesman Elmer who weighed 234 pounds (see cut), was shocked into dieting last year after a Dallas department-store salesman waved him into the "fat men's section" for a new shirt: He took off 40 pounds in 80 days and wrote a book, The Fat Boy's Book (Prentice-Hall; $2), which sold lethargically until General Features, a lusty young feature service, chopped it into 19 pieces lor newspaper...
...helpless materialist whose one standard was money, a quavering conformist whose only security was found in the back-slapping approval of his fellow Rotarians. He lived in physical comfort greater than kings enjoyed in the past, but he rarely stopped to enjoy it, for he was a Hustler. He was ashamed of his secret dreams. He was an adolescent who had never grown up, a semi-civilized barbarian...