Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Musica Director Noah Greenberg hopes to take Daniel to Europe later this year. His favorite testimonial to the show's popularity comes from a record salesman (Daniel was recorded by Decca) who, when asked what it was all about, replied: "It's a kind of 12th century My Fair Lady...
...Japan, where 23,500 people killed themselves last year, and the suicide rate increases by 5% a year, Candy Salesman Akira Emoto, 31. was long regarded as a candidate for the statistics column. He brooded, he ate sleeping pills and last summer he tried to poison himself. "Just you wait." he told friends in the southern city of Kokonoe, "very soon I shall do something that will startle the nation...
...electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away by the Edison General Electric Appliance Co. Edison was a subsidiary of General Electric, then under its third president, brilliant, public-minded Gerard Swope, who kept the company reins firmly in his own hands. Cordiner celebrated his new job by marrying his college sweetheart. Gwyneth...
Though husbands may moan over the decline of home cooking in the U.S., the era of the TV dinner has been rich fare for a softspoken, Georgia-born paper salesman named R. Carl ("Hap") Chandler, 41. Chandler heads Standard Packaging, which makes material for trays that can be cooked, bags that can be boiled. Says Chandler happily: "Everything that we make is thrown away...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* The very fact that this show has survived its title (Goodbye . . . But It Doesn't Go Away) suggests that it is worth a look. An oldie (first produced 31/2 years ago) about an old problem: a traveling salesman trying to figure out why life has not paid him the commission he thinks he deserves...