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...deeply involved at nearly every step of the high-stakes operation. Pentagon and Commerce Department officials, for example, aid sales teams from U.S. arms manufacturers at the biennial Paris Air Show, where hundreds of millions of dollars of weapons business is transacted. Until recently, France's top arms salesman was Air Force General Hugues de 1'Estoile who, dressed in civilian clothes, trotted the globe seeking customers. Usually, however, it is the military attache, stationed in nearly every embassy around the world, who spots a potential customer and makes preliminary contacts. Having ingratiated himself with senior officers of the host...
...Pancho Villa south of the border under General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing. While there, Angleton courted and married a beautiful Mexican girl of 17. On returning to Boise, where their first son, christened James Jesus, was born in 1917, Angleton pére established himself as a star salesman for the National Cash Register Co. In the 1920s he took charge of the company's European operations. In 1933 he bought the firm's franchise for Italy and moved his family to Milan and later to Rome, where they lived in a handsome old villa. For years...
...agent says: "Travel to Europe is dead, but dead-killed by the high cost of European jaunts." At Winer's agency, 60% of all bookings in the past month have been to the Caribbean-at an average cost per couple of $1,000. Jack Benjamin, a salesman in the languishing retail-garment trade, recently took his wife for a week at the Club Mediterranee in Martinique-a trip that set them back $1,400. Now they have paid for a return visit to the same resort in March. When Harry Lack, a district court judge in Everett, Mass...
...Wall Street and then in the garment industry. Until several years after his marriage at 22 to Sara Perelmuth, the sister of Tenor Jan Peerce, he had never seen a Met performance. Inspired by the example of his prominent inlaw, Tucker, who was then a fur coat-lining salesman and cantor, began studying with Wagnerian Tenor Paul Althouse. According to Althouse, "Tucker just came for his lesson, took off his hat, sang, put his hat on again and went." Tucker was permanent cantor at the Brooklyn Jewish Center when he auditioned for the Met in 1944. The next year...
...director, Elia Kazan earned a niche in theatrical history with considerable help from classic scripts (Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire) and talented actors (Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Lee J. Cobb). Kazan's second career in the solitary business of writing has so far resulted in three commercially successful novels that tend to thrash about in alien corn. There is nothing wrong with The Understudy, for instance, that a good script and some believable characters would not help...