Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what's going on." Ambitious, hard-driving Neil McElroy found out enough to realize that Procter & Gamble, with its incentives for the ambitious, hard-driving organization man, was the place for him. He never got to business school, instead stayed on at P. & G., first as a soap salesman, then in the advertising department. In the early 1930s he had an offer from a big New York ad agency. "I'm not going to take it," he told a friend. "I'm going to stay with Procter & Gamble. But I'm not going to be satisfied...
Ever since his Midwestern utilities empire collapsed in scandal in the 1930s, the late Samuel Insull has served a generation of writers as a bogy of financial skulduggery. Samuel Insull Jr., 57, once his father's righthand man and now a Chicago insurance salesman, bore up steadily under the legacy. Last week he rebelled...
...Tractor. He soon caught the fancy of Co-Founder Charles E. Merrill, himself an Amherst man, and rose fast from salesman to bond department manager to sales manager. Carrying out Charlie Merrill's expansion policies, Win Smith in 1940 initiated and was a chief negotiator in the merger with E. A. Pierce & Co., was made managing partner of the joint firm. A year later he helped bring Fenner & Beane into the combine. From 1944 onward, Smith really ran the company for ailing Directing Partner Merrill. When Merrill died * (TIME, Oct.15, 1956), Smith took his title...
...remembered as the season when Arthur Godfrey became a mortal. Both of his TV shows are being drubbed by the competition, which is even taking large bites out of the old champion's radio audience. Godfrey's sponsors are still strongly loyal to their star salesman, but his rating losses on the network schedule pose a problem for CBS, which this season has lost some of its audience edge over an aggressive NBC and a fast-growing ABC. Another blow to CBS has been the slippage of The $64,000 Question, which, despite such frantic publicity stunts...
...Prospect. In Fuquay-Varina, N.C. E. T. Burchett, auto salesman, explained to police why he chased an armed bandit who had just robbed a bank of $12,000: "I wanted to sell him a car and I knew he had some money...