Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salesman is coming into his own once again, Owen Brown, vice-president and general sales manager of Godfrey L. Cabot, Inc., said last night at the third forum on business careers. The subject of the forum was "Business--Sales...
Selling Point. In Manhattan, Kans., Ellis Stackfleth invited an accident insurance salesman to come back later, followed him out of the house, fell on the icy pavement, broke...
...Never Forget . . ." One recent advertiser, Gerhardt Stumm, a plump, 31-year-old salesman, paid extra (minimum rate: about 50? a week) to get a picture of the Bavarian Alps in his "love-wanted" ad. It ran: "What fraulein would like to go on a two-week holiday to Bavaria by automobile, all expenses paid? Congenial and well-to-do gentleman seeks blonde at least five feet tall, not older than 23. She must not wear glasses." Stumm received 13 replies. He picked a slight (111-lb 5ft. 3-in.), dark-haired girl who wanted a holiday "awfully much." Later, Stumm...
...break up or remake stolen jewelry. To avoid the underworld markdown on hot goods, he printed up cards which bore his name and the legend "Felix P. Jacobson Co., 5 South Wabash, Chicago, Ill."-an active firm whose name he had simply appropriated. He posed as a legitimate salesman and always demanded list prices for stones...
Last spring, he wrote Death of a Salesman in a six-week spurt; it had been stewing in his head for ten years. The script inspired such enthusiasm in its producers and Director Kazan that most of its 80 investors put up the backing without reading it. Some disliked the title and demanded a new one with box office lure, but Miller held...