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...Though Georgia Senator Sam Nunn, tongue in cheek, introduced Clinton at a meeting two years ago as "the only politician to be a rising star in three decades," he knew pain and adversity in childhood. His father, a heavy- equipment salesman, was killed in a freak road accident three months before Clinton -- originally christened William J. Blythe IV -- was born on Aug. 19, 1946, in the little southwestern Arkansas town of Hope. Five months later, his mother Virginia returned to nursing school in Shreveport, La., to get a degree in anesthesiology, leaving Bill with grandparents who ran a small grocery...
...Plagues, Angel of Ice, Angel of Lightning" -- and has had wings tattooed on his back. Benny also sees himself as the appointed savior of Catchprice Motors. Never mind that his relatives think him fit for nothing but pumping gas. "This is a family business," Benny tells a prospective salesman. "It's a snake-pit. They all hate each other. None of them can sell a car. If you work here, you'd have to work...
...hailing cabs for herself several years later, she is well into her search for her lost self and a 12-point recovery program that includes imagery, hypnosis, meditation, unlearning, relearning and the Universal "I." She traces her loss of self to the day her 300-lb. father, an itinerant salesman, abandoned her when she was 10 in a rat-infested, dilapidated farmhouse fronting on a major highway in Toledo. Left to care for a loving but mentally ill mother who heard voices, she was forced to grow up too soon, to be mother to her mother. She escaped to Smith...
Johnson is the last President we have had who relished domestic affairs. Califano's portrait shows that Johnson's genius was in his uncanny insight and attention to detail. "You look like an ice-cream salesman," Johnson told Califano when he showed up in a light suit. Califano went dark gray...
...that started in 1987 -- though if we are it's at least comforting to know we're halfway through it. But one sure sign it's a bear market in collectibles at least -- whatever stocks may do -- is that I recently got a call from a historic-documents salesman. When someone calls out of the blue to sell you Abe Lincoln autographs, you can be pretty sure times are tough in autograph land...