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...truth was that pinchik had not felt comfortable in the shoes but he could never bring himself to say no to a salesman. "I want to be liked," he admitted to Blanche. "Once I bought a live wildebeest because I couldn't say no." (Note: O.F. Krumgold has written a brilliant paper about certain tribes in Borneo that do not have a word for "no" in their language and consequently turn down requests by nodding their heads and saying, "I'll get back to you." This corroborates his earlier theories that the urge to be liked at any cost...
...owner, who established the store in 1971, "didn't want to leave" the Square but was not able to renew his lease, an area salesman and personal friend of the Spa owner, who asked not to be identified, said yesterday...
Much of the nation has. After his first appearance on The Gong show about three years ago, Langston, unemployed and broke, started a mini-national phenomenon with his bagged buffoonery. Imitators galore popped up: an Unknown Disc Jockey, an Unknown Used Car Salesman, a University of Georgia student who ran for class president (and won) as the Unknown Candidate...
...remained a hip poetaster, a psychedelic pushcart salesman hawking Oedipal nightmares like Good Humors. No One Here Gets Out Alive portrays Morrison not as he was but in the image that he built. He died in Paris in 1971 at the age of 27, still playing Rimbaud the way a young actor cannot shake off a role even after he has lost the part...
...Iacocca, 55, is the auto industry's most colorful and controversial top executive. A blunt-talking salesman who sells the sizzle as well as the steak, Iacocca spent 32 years at Ford Motor. He launched the successful Mustang in 1964 and was company president for nine years. In 1978, however, Henry Ford II abruptly fired Iacocca, reportedly with the explanation: "I just don't like you." Iacocca then moved across town and soon became chairman of Chrysler. He has been the chief negotiator of the company's $1.5 billion Government-guaranteed loan. Says he: "Government officials make...