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Hanff (Ellen Burstyn) is trying to gain an education by reading the great works, and Frank Doel, the bookstore's chief salesman (Joseph Maher), is the man who finds them for her. A relationship of sorts develops. Britain is still suffering from postwar rationing, and she sends packages of food, which are shared by the other four employees. Some of them also join in the correspondence, telling about their lives and their families, and Hanff chats them up from her 95th Street apartment...
Other aides insist that the President likes to make decisions, but they agree that he does place great emphasis on the policy salesman's role?as indeed a President must, although it should hardly be his top priority. They claim, for example, that Reagan spends more time than any other modern President writing and editing his own remarks. A corollary to this stress on communication, notes Deaver, is that "you should never try to make him do something he doesn't believe in, because if you do that, we will fail. The greatest asset this Administration has is Ronald Reagan...
BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently...
...Woodstock, Ill., joined the Woodstock Players, met Actress Jacqueline Witte and married. He had appeared in 17 Players productions by May of 1950, when the news came that his father had died. With Jackie, by then pregnant with their son Scott, he returned to Shaker Heights to become a salesman in the store...
DICK HEADLEE, insurance salesman, former state Chamber of Commerce president, devout Mormon, had not necessarily been a front-runner prior to October 21; his chances were neither stunning nor slim. But his shocking statements, coupled with his clarification explaining that he was only referring to some ERA proponents, have made him something of a doormat in what should have been a hotly contested, vitally important race...