Word: salesman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
JOHN HOLMES, 60, the primus inter pares of the Mormon Mafia, though the only non-Mormon among them (he is a Roman Catholic). Holmes worked in Southern California as a salesman for a tobacco company before he signed on as Hughes' personal driver in the early 1950s. He joined the inner circle in 1957, and is now one of Summa Corp.'s five directors. Tense, quiet and politically conservative, Holmes is said to have been a very heavy coffee drinker and a chain-smoker-but never in Hughes' presence...
Soapy Roles. There are also little pockets of drama in the stands: Will Car Salesman David Janssen stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...
When Japanese Salesman Goro Hasegawa, 44, invented his simple board game in 1971, his father, a Shakespearean scholar, duly noted that the appeal of the game was based on a series of "dramatic reversals." Perhaps, he suggested, it should be called Othello. Today Othello is a national pastime played by some 25 million Japanese-and a full-blown fad replete with towels, tie clasps, and key chains, all emblazoned with the distinctive Othello emblem. Spearheaded by Fumio Fujita, 27, a barber from outside Tokyo and the game's reigning champion, Othello has invaded England...
...Paul Trudel, earning a living as a camera salesman just isn't the same as doing the job he spent 18 years perfecting. But since he was fired from the Central Copy Services at Harvard last February 14, Trudel, a pressman, hasn't had much choice...
Making morality in foreign affairs a major issue, Carter charges that it is wrong for the U.S. to be the world's leading arms salesman. He finds it "repugnant" that Washington backs authoritarian regimes like South Korea and has suggested that either Seoul start reforming or the U.S. should consider a cutback in aid or in U.S. security forces there. Carter also feels that the U.S. has a moral obligation to do significantly more than it has to help underdeveloped countries and to participate in what could be very costly international commodity agreements to bolster the economies of such...