Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening of Death of a Salesman at the Phoenix,* which like most London theaters is not air-conditioned, gentlemen sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around...
Whipped, bedraggled Willy Loman is well on his way, it appears, to becoming as much a British as an American celebrity. Theatergoing Londoners last week welcomed Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prizewining Death of a Salesman with raves and flourishes...
Meighan has railed for years against the "inefficiency of insincerity." Last fall he got a chance to prove his theories at CBS-owned WCCO in Minneapolis. Meighan picked WCCO for experiment because its listening audience represents a happy medium between "salesman-shy" New Yorkers and "gullible-as-hell" Californians...
...best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes you think about...
...Trainmen; of a heart attack; in Bay Village, Ohio. Whitney once vowed to unseat President Truman after the unsuccessful 1946 rail strike ("You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and you can't make a President out of a ribbon salesman"). He later backtracked and gave Truman all-out support. Said the President in his message of condolence: "[He] became . . . the exemplar of the philosopher's teaching that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds...