Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dancer Holder credits the birth of his fast-moving career to his Negro father, a "salesman with brains" in Port of Spain, Trinidad, who said, "If you put the tools in front of the baby, the baby will walk up to the tools." One day daddy Holder went out and blew the rent money on a piano. Pretty soon Geoffrey's older brother, Boscoe, began to bang at the keyboard in the evenings, and Geoffrey copied him. When Boscoe developed a taste for painting and then for dancing, Geoffrey copied him again. Endowed with natural rhythm and a body...
...Well, Anyhow. In Brisbane, Australia. Salesman James Bernard Donohue was arrested for wearing a uniform and impersonating a policeman while selling advertising for a booklet entitled ''Crime Does...
...little dumb. Three (Lee J. Cobb) is the boss of a messenger service, a dispositional bully who would rather punch somebody than stand up to his own problems. Four (E. G. Marshall) is a broker so coldblooded he never even sweats. Seven (Jack Warden) is a marmalade salesman who can really spread it on, and who is all for rushing the defendant to the chair so that he can hurry off to a seat of his own-at the evening ball game. Eight (Henry Fonda) is a mild-mannered, intelligent architect. Nine (Joseph Sweeney) is a cranky old pensioner...
...first appear to be against God, Country and Yale in the end do well by all three. At one time it appears as if the only letters McGough and Baxter are likely to win in life are four-letter ones, but Baxter (like Author Ham) becomes an insurance salesman and McGough winds up amid semi-rustic bliss in Westport, Conn. There is a suitable epitaph on the abortive revolt of the generation of the '30s when the once-terrible McGough asks: "You want to see our cow, Baxter?'' Where are the sledge hammers of yesteryear...
...Broadway theater, Playwright Osborne was hailed not only as Britain's angriest young man, but as the theater's rediscoverer of Britain's neglected lower-middle-class snob. Anger's hero, afflicted by a miserable childhood and his flops as a vacuum-cleaner salesman and a bandleader, speaks his outraged pieces on such hallowed British institutions as the scandalous News of the World, gaitered bishops, church bells, U.S. evangelists and dear old Mummy ("My God, those worms will need a good dose of salts the day they get through...