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...Book Shop on Bow St. sells books at 40 to 60 percent off. The selection is limited in all three cases, but Harvard Book Store offers a good supply of Penguin Books, and the Starr carries a wide selection of "classic scholarly books in all fields," according to one salesman...
Alan Walter, a Scientologist for 20 years and a mission holder in the Middle West, contends that "Hubbard was a genius in many ways. He was set up by these kids. They were doing insane things. It was a reign of terror." Larry Wollersheim, who considered himself "a cult salesman," says that he was trained to locate the assets of church members and then help them devise explanations to relatives for why they needed so much money. "I was constantly hammered to coerce people to get loans," he claims...
Nothing much happens. Charles' only friend Sam loses his job as a jacket salesman and moves in. His mother, alternately in a silver lame dress, bathtub, or asylum, has a bad habit of attempting suicide. Susan, the fresh-faced younger sister, "always appears to be happy and normal. She must know something," he muses. Reminders of the Sixties lie sprinkled about: Janis Joplin on the car radio, references to Woodstock--according to Susan, "Just a bunch of people walking around in the mud looking for a place to pee." But these bits of nostalgia are carefully controlled, contributing...
...cattle rancher, the chairman of Saks Fifth Avenue, a philosopher, professors, the director of the National Gallery of Art, a priest, a librarian, a lumber wholesaler, an ambassador, a television correspondent, an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a state senator, a pathologist, a househusband, a pilot, a salesman of women's shoes, and a mediator of environmental disputes...
...unemployed and living in a mobile home before she married Pulitzer, grandson of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, seven years ago. He ruled that she had "continuously engaged in adultery and other gross marital misconduct." Indeed, testimony indicated that she had slept with a Palm Beach real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver and Jacquie Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful eyes and aging face." At the same time, "the wife nonchalantly...