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DIED. JACK KENT COOKE, 84, imperious business magnate and colorful owner of the Washington Redskins football team; in Washington. A high school dropout who began as an encyclopedia salesman, Cooke built what may be a billion-dollar fortune, freewheeling his way through media properties, sports franchises and real estate. In 1971 he pioneered the closed-circuit mega-sportscast by financing the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier match. Fans and foes relished reading about his four tabloid-tale marriages. Approached for a book on the world's five greatest salesmen, Cooke replied, "I am not one of five anything...
...Deserves It: Macy's a dark horse if Fargo goes far; whatever the outcome, his shifty, stuttering car salesman was the subtlest, the saddest, and the funniest of this bunch...
...second visitor in Cassville was apparently Nichols, who used his own name but took little part in the conversations. It was the third man who did almost all the talking. His name was Robert Jacques, pronounced Jacks. "I just go by Jacks," he told Maloney. Joe Lee Davidson, a salesman in Maloney's office who was there when the three men came by, recalls, "He seemed to be the one that was in control and in charge of what was going...
...forget those photos of Michelle Kwan, 16, slipping in last month's U.S. figure-skating championships. For Rimes, so far, there have been few stumbles. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Garland, Texas, by her mother Belinda, a homemaker, and her father Wilbur, a seismic-supply salesman who peddled drilling rigs, metal pipes and the like before quitting to co-manage his only child and produce her albums ("I'm not technical," he says of his learn-as-you-go approach...
Before he became Marilyn Manson, Warner, now 28, lived a youth of bland middle-class normality in Canton, Ohio. His parents, a furniture salesman and a nurse, sent him to a strict Christian boarding school, which, he later said, "turned me against the hypocrisy of organized religion." At 18 he took a job as a rock journalist on a tiny Florida paper before deciding to launch his own career in music. In 1994 he was discovered by Trent Reznor, leader of the popular band Nine Inch Nails and one of the architects of "industrial rock," an abrasive offshoot of punk...