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...Martin and Daffy Duck. Though always wearing the same costume-baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences of Shakespeare, many foreign languages, an ark of animals, various machines. His act includes a redneck used-car salesman, a Russian comic, a gay director, a touchingly mad grandpa...
Frank McLaughlin is a master salesman. Some even said when he first arrived (in the fall of 1977) that he had missed his calling, that he should forget coaching and go make a mint in Arizona real estate or at a used-car dealership...
...average student salesman works 12 1/2 to 13 1/2 hours a day, and six days a week, clearing approximately $1000 profit in his first summer of work, Wilson said...
THREE YEARS AGO, when Birch Bayh, Morris Udall, Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson, and a host of other Democrats tramped through snowy New England in search of elusive primary votes, the Harvard Democratic Club worked harder than a toy salesman at Christmas. This year, the lack of a national campaign has caused its members to turn on each other, and now all involved agree that the results have been just short of disastrous...
Sullivan's sang-froid was characteristic; he is known in diplomatic circles as a self-assured salesman of policy, cool under stress and adroit at coping with diplomatic delicacies. "I think he's got water for blood," says Eugene Lawson, a former State Department colleague who is now a director at Georgetown University's foreign service school. "He's a collected, shrewd guy who always seems to land on his feet...