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Harry Seigler, on trial in Richmond for robbery and murder, was sitting in a courthouse jail cell one afternoon last week, awaiting the jury's verdict. Charged with robbing a local insurance salesman last December and then slashing his throat, Seigler, 30, had pleaded not guilty...
...dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid pages to crusade for U.S. medical treatment for the "Hiroshima maidens" in the 1940s, for disarmament in the 1950s, for aid to rebuild a Vietnamese village ravaged by U.S. Marines in the 1960s. But he always proved a shrewd salesman; his special sections on topics such as education and stereo electronics often attracted foundation support or extra advertising. Cousins made SR solvent enough that McCall Corp., publisher of McCall's and other magazines, acquired it for $3 million...
Connecticut Salesman A. Donald Fass, 50, was not just an ordinary door-to-door peddler. He was named Salesman of the Year in 1979 by the Atlanta-based Rollins Protective Services. As it turned out, Fass had a special gimmick to make a sale. Like many other businessmen, he would first show off his wares during a home visit while chatting with prospects about such sensitive information as their vacation schedules and the location of their valuables. Then, when the occupants were away, Fass would return and make off with the family jewels, the silver and anything else of worth...
...steel-mill floors. This closeness was depicted in the movie The Deer Hunter, whose home-town scenes were filmed in Weirton. "You just know everybody," says Fran Crow, 27, a third-grade teacher. Her husband John, 28, has been furloughed from his job as a Weirton Steel salesman, one of 2,600 who received a pink slip in the past two years. "At first I was thrilled," he says. "I thought I'd play a little golf." Now, he says, "it's scary...
...months, theater screens have been carrying a new kind of trailer: a cinematic twist on the old mail-order-bride pitch. In the clip, titled What Do You Think of My Face?, a man named Marc Halberstadt fills the silver screen. Explains the 36-year-old former furniture salesman, who scraped together $1,200 to produce the film as a gimmick to find a wife: "I wanted to create the most significant mating call in the history of the human race...