Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plot starts out thick as minestrone and thickens, thickens, thickens. It centers around a travelling salesman whose wife suspects him on general principles. When the police arrest this simple fellow on bigamy charges, no one investigates the possibility of mistaken identity. Which might have saved a good deal of trouble. Meanwhile, noisy relatives of all parties clog the wheels of justice...
...Singing Salesman. As a youngster, Johnny had something to cry about. Born near Kingsland, Ark. ("just a wide place in the road"), he grew up on a hardscrabble farm. Johnny's Baptist family were mainly hymn singers, but his mother reckoned that it was all right to teach the boys how to strum her battered old guitar. At twelve, Johnny was writing poems, songs and gory stories. At 22, after a tour in the Air Force, he was married, making a poor living as an appliance salesman in the poorer sections of Memphis...
...unknown at the Shop, the scene of many little economics, and he smiled modestly at the salesman who was watching his progress to the Valentines rack. Glancing guiltily past those daring, jokey ones, he hovered over the "Personal" section...
Advancing to the counter, Lucius apologetically displayed his purchase, and after enduring the salesman's knowing wink, paid out the full price and withdrew...
...Miserable Years." Feiffer was born in The Bronx, and has never got over it. ("The place I grew up in didn't even have the dignity to be a slum.") His father held a variety of jobs, from dental technician to salesman; his mother was a fashion designer. Like his characters, Feiffer suffered many childhood frustrations. (''Echoes of my childhood keep creeping into my work. I'm sneaky-I hide behind my pictures.") In 1946 he got out of James Monroe High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college...