Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Huggins might also have been describing his leading man. Born James Baumgarner in Norman, Okla., Garner grew up on a farm he "hated," rode two miles to school, on horseback, and took pot shots at odd jobs (traveling salesman, oilfield worker, the Merchant Marine), which he always quit "when I got bored." He drifted to Hollywood, where he helped his father lay carpets, modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner...
...Dark at the Top of the Stairs (by William Inge) takes the author, and the audience, back to the small-town world of his 1920s childhood. In a rambling old house it portrays a middle-class family; there is a slightly crude, life-speckled traveling salesman (Pat Hingle) who loves but forever collides with his gently exasperating wife (Teresa Wright). There is their unconfident, boy-frightened teen-age daughter; there is their small son, who can be hard and soft in the wrong places. Everybody, including the wife's sister (Eileen Heckart) and her dentist husband, is so outwardly...
...youngest of five children born to a traveling salesman, Inge grew up in Independence, Kans. grimly determined to become an actor, saw his dream dissolve in one frantic moment of stage fright three years after he graduated from the University of Kansas (class of 1935). "I played the choir master in an amateur production of Our Town," recalls Inge, "and suddenly I found I was terrified, too self-conscious to ever act again." Later, he spent an unhappy period as a high school and college teacher ("I experienced almost the same terrors as I did as an actor...
...three months he banged out Farther Off from Heaven, a play about a shoe salesman, had it produced by Margo Jones's Dallas Theater. Then he started to fiddle with an earlier short story of his about a black Scottie he had once been forced to sell. The story evolved into Come Back, Little Sheba (190 Broadway performances). "After that, they said...
Farewell to Alms. In Fullerton, Calif., Car Salesman Robert W. Huff, 30, charged with bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...