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...sends it back electrified. Marvy, 70, has been in the business for 55 years, and he has been up to date every step of the way. This up-to-dateness is itself a kind of spring-wound relic: the breezy, bet-on-the-future confidence of a Midwestern traveling salesman from a half-century...
...Alabama tenant farmer, Owens was a schoolboy track star in Cleveland. He worked his way through Ohio State as a night elevator operator, and after his Olympic triumphs pursued a variety of jobs: disc jockey, bandleader, salesman. A forceful speaker, he eventually prospered as a lecturer and headed his own Phoenix public relations firm. Until he entered the hospital in December, stricken by the lung cancer that killed him last week at the age of 66, he was, appropriately, serving as the State Department's "Ambassador to Sports...
...Sacred Heart, where Romero's body lay in state, and joined a silent procession behind the cortege as it was taken to the Metropolitan Cathedral. "He was our father and protector," explained one grief-stricken woman carrying a small bouquet of yellow flowers. Said a middle-aged salesman: "The people will never forget this vile...
...most successful commercial airplane salesman in the world is E.H. ("Tex") Boullioun, 61, president of the Boeing subsidiary responsible for commercial sales and programs. Since he joined the company during World War II, he has signed up so many billions of dollars in deals with airlines that he no longer bothers to keep track. His latest coup: a $550 million contract three weeks ago for 727s, 737s and five 767s for Australia's Ansett Airlines...
Boeing's boss can also be a persuasive salesman. His was one of the first American companies to do business with the Chinese, who ordered ten 707s in 1972. Several weeks ago, as the Pentagon was coming down to the wire on the cruise missile contract, Wilson left for Peking to deliver the first of three 7475P aircraft costing $60 million each. He was on his way home via Hong Kong, London and New York City when the Pentagon announced its decision...