Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opportunity of discussing this theater with Jo Mielziner a few months ago. Mr. Mielziner, who designed the sets for "Mister Roberts," "South Pacific," "A Streetear Named Desire," and "Death of a Salesman," is beyond a doubt America's top scenic designer. His feeling is that "the present method of flying scenery above the stage is still the fastest, most efficient means of shifting. Modern drama is written with flying scenery in mind, and for this reason 'The New Theater' cannot be adapted by the commercial theater for quite some time...
Supper Menu. To prepare for his boss job, urbane, unpretentious Field touched most of the bases from driver's helper on a delivery truck to classified-ad salesman, police reporter and editorial writer. A graduate of Harvard and the University of Virginia Law School and a wartime Navy officer in the South Pacific, he is a bit to the right of his newspaper's longtime stand in politics. A Democrat but no rooting-tooting Fair Dealer ("I'm a liberal conservative"), he thinks that "welfare capitalism" is a better answer than the "welfare state," believes that...
...then securities. Later, he started Detroit's H. A. McDonald Creamery Co., built it into one of Michigan's biggest dairies. He branched out into investment banking, became a partner in Detroit's McDonald-Moore & Co. (a connection he severed when he joined SEC). Still a salesman, McDonald's first step as SEC boss last week was to call in his division chiefs and tell them to "make this agency one of the best in town to do business with...
...Salesman. In Milwaukee, haled into court for peddling toys without a license,, Alvin B. Wolff persuaded the judge to buy three mechanical penguins before he was ordered to get out of town...
Despite his shyness, he is a crack salesman who throws no artistic tantrums. Far from turning out designs with offhand sureness, he works them over painstakingly until the client is satisfied. He also has an almost hypnotic power to impress, persuade and convince the toughest tycoon. Even the American Tobacco Co.'s late George Washington Hill, who used to frighten advertising men out of their wits, wilted under Loewy's gentle suasion. He paid him the whopping fee of $50,000 just for designing a new white package for Lucky Strike in 1942 ("Lucky Strike green has gone...