Word: salesman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Facing the House Un-American Activities Committee, Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller leaped hurdle after hurdle in a race to get a passport. No, he had never been under Communist Party discipline. Yes, he had indeed lent his name and support to many a Red-front group in the 1940s. No, he was no longer in "the mood" to support "a cause dominated by Communists." At only one hurdle did Pulitzerman Miller balk: providing the names of his former Red associates. "I will tell you anything about myself," said he frankly, "but I cannot take responsibility for another...
Despite Macmillan's explanations, the Cabinet decision provoked a storm of protest in Parliament. Spearhead of the attack were Tory backbenchers, chief among them Toronto-born Sir Beverley Baxter, a onetime piano salesman who rose to the eminence of editor in chief...
Divorced. By Arthur Miller, 40, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Death of a Salesman) and current romantic interest, according to the tabloids, of Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, 30: Mary Grace Slattery Miller, 40; after 16 years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...sell its bonds on U.S. securities markets to raise the money for loans. But foreign bonds were almost unsalable; so many foreign issues had defaulted in the '30s that more than 40 states restricted the purchase of foreign bonds. What McCloy needed was a good bond salesman, someone who could tell the story of what the bank was trying to do. His man was Gene Black, then 49, a senior vice president of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, and a salesman of rare talents. Within a year, as the U.S. executive director of the World Bank, Black...
...Four Bs. President Black is much more than an expert securities peddler. He is the world's leading salesman of the benefits of capitalism, and the Bank did not really reach its stride until he became its president...