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...summer. As dealers for Southwestern, a Nashville-based publishing and bookselling company, they go door to door in small towns all across the country selling Bibles and encyclopedias. For some, the monetary rewards are great. Last year the average first year dealer made $1240.46, and the company's top salesman raked in $15.500 The company's recruiters also stress the benefits of the arduous sales experience, both in personal development and business training. But the program also carries its share of risks Since student salesmen must pay all of their own expenses while on the road and are only paid...
Stacy P. Gilber, a junior at Brandeis, accompanied her boyfriend, a Southwestern salesman, to an awards ceremony in the Pocano Mountains last March. Numerous prizes were given out, including awards for hardest worker, most hours, and best sales presentation. Her boyfriend, who is paying his way through New York University law school, won a trip to the Bahamas during Christmas vacation...
...Finn, John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Ralph Ellison's Invisible. Man, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, P.L Travers' Mary Poppins and The American Heritage Dictionary. Last week a collection of literary luminaries from PEN, the writers' association, dramatized their opposition to censorship by staging a public reading from the banned books at Manhattan's Public Theater. Among those reciting some famous-and forbidden...
...rolling fields of western Wisconsin last week, Jim Lemanski, 44, and his wife Martha, 43, watched their 330-acre farm near Fennimore being sold at auction. They had left Madison, where he had been an appliance salesman, less than four years ago, going $380,000 into debt to take a fling at farming with hogs, cattle and corn. But prices fell, his 10% loans came up for renewal at 20%, and Lemanski lost $10,000 on corn alone last year. Overall, his try at farming cost him $100,000. "Numbers like that take...
...club raised a few eyebrows initially. Social Director Merry Ann Moore's attempt to buy rugby equipment at Brine's Sporting Goods drew a few comments from a salesman. "He said: 'You look pretty frail to be playing rugby,' but I told him that we were starting a new tradition," Moore recalled...