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...Arctic Circle. "It's tough up here," says Fran, who lived in a garage on a dirt floor in 1977-she, two dachshunds and an electric heater. The inside temperature was 31°F below zero. She ran an outfit called Speedy Secretary then, but an IBM salesman blew through town, sold everybody a copier and put her out of business. "You can't run across the street to the hardware store for a fuse or anything. Nine times out often you have to send away...
DIED. Peter C. Wilson, 71, English art salesman extraordinary and longtime chairman of Sotheby's, the world's leading art-auction firm, who was responsible for transforming the genteel, Old World establishment into a glamorous high-tech $575 million-a-year business; of the effects of diabetes; in Paris. After joining Sotheby's in 1936 as a porter, the normally reticent Wilson became a nonpareil auctioneer, dubbed the "fastest gavel in the West." Rising to chairman in 1958, he set about overseas expansion, establishing offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the U.S., notably in New York...
DIED. Arthur H. ("Red") Motley, 83, publisher-president responsible for making Parade magazine the largest and most profitable of the national Sunday supplements; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. A garrulous onetime salesman of zithers and Fuller brushes, he became boss of the five-year-old, money-losing supplement in 1946. By pitching it to newspaper markets in the burgeoning suburbs, he increased its circulation from 2 million to 19 million, under various owners, until his retirement...
...Mark Linn-Baker) who is haunted by nightmares of dismemberment and memories of an unsuitable recent job sweeping up dead dogs from the road; a sometime belle (Patricia Richardson) who finds it easy to leave her husband but impossible to abandon her clock col lection; and a carnival balloon salesman (Budge Threlkeld), cheerfully wondering which of the three major diseases inhabiting his body will kill...
DIED. John Betjeman, 77, poet laureate of Britain whose whimsical light verse and nostalgic odes to genteel Edwardian England won him uncommon popular success; in Trebetherick, Cornwall. The son of a prosperous businessman, Betjeman flunked out of Oxford and worked in a variety of jobs, from journalist to insurance salesman, before his Selected Poems (1948) won the prestigious Heinemann Award. Critics were divided on Betjeman's poetry; many found it trivial or derivative, perhaps because of its simple musical rhymes and accessible themes. An astute architectural critic, he waged passionate campaigns to preserve England's historical treasures...