Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks sex squarely in the face, it is too late to win John's love or even arouse his lust: he has kind of taken her words to heart, and settled down with someone else. For Alma, there is the bench in the square and the passing traveling salesman...
Leithead (rhymes with wheat bread) is Palmer's choice. Since 1929, when he went to work for Cluett, Peabody as a floor salesman in Chicago, he has run the San Francisco and New York offices, and put in the past year as boss of sales. Leithead has a salesman's persuasive tongue, the casual manners of an ex-cowhand (he worked on his father's ranch in Lovell, Wyo.), and a vague distrust of Eastern ways. (Until he took up foxhunting in Westchester County, N.Y., he would not ride anything but a Western saddle.) When...
...minded youngster around Chicago, chunky George T. Baker bought an old plane and barnstormed around the Midwest and Florida. Later, in Miami, he started National Airlines, Inc. with one plane, and made money by doubling as mechanic, ticket salesman and hangar-sweeper. By 1944, when he was operating seven planes, the Civil Aeronautics Board was so impressed by his line that it awarded him such rich scheduled routes as the New York-Miami and Miami-Havana runs. Overnight the onetime feeder line became one of the potentially richest trunkline carriers...
...story doesn't greatly matter: a bluffing old Confederate veteran (capably hammed by Roland Culver) is deceived into fronting for an itinerant salesman (Patric Knowles) of wildcat oil shares. The wildcat is also a tomcat, and Veronica Lake, the prettiest of the colonel's three daughters, falls for him. The second daughter (Oklahoma's Mary Hatcher) sings a good deal, and the youngest (Mona Freeman) is on hand with wisecracks. There is also a cook (Pearl Bailey), and a comic swain (Billy De Wolfe...
Another duty of the Dean of Freshmen is touring the country's high schools as a salesman for the University. Dean Leighton's circuit includes Illinois, Nebraska and lowa. On these trips he particularly tries to debunk the notion that boys west of the Mississippi don't do well at Harvard and after graduation are no good to the folks at home. Mr. Leighton points out, by way of example, that two members of his class are now police chief and fire commissioner of Tulsa and Oklahoma City...