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...former Cincinnati paper salesman who now raises Arabian horses in the Mount Orab area, Lodwick became interested in education first as president of the local school board and then as an elementary-school teacher. He recalls...
Bernie Brodkorb, an automobile salesman from South St. Paul, and his wife Lois are two of the more flamboyant party givers. They come in a purple 1951 school bus (the Vikings' colors are purple and gold), laden with the fruits of five weeks of planning-two quarter-barrels of Grain Belt beer, 18 Ibs. of roast beef, a ham, fish, potato salad and home-baked beans. They also bring a flatbed truck to serve as a stage for Joe Tomaszewski's six-piece Polish Show Band. "I don't hunt or fish-I just party," says Bernie...
There are other kinds of reunions. Insurance Salesman Dave La Vine of Minneapolis is one of the regulars who can always be counted on to hold a great party. This year La Vine blew some $600 outfitting his 40-ft. rented trailer with enough goodies to treat 200 friends, clients and old Sigma Alpha Epsilon brothers. "We flew all the way out here from Manhattan," says Bill Shallberg, who came out with his wife Suzie. "This is where the real pro football fans...
...largest developers have cleaned up their sales practices under pressure from federal and state regulators. Executives of Dart Industries, which has been charged with allegedly fraudulent sales of recreational lots in California, say that they will fire any salesman who tries to peddle their lots on a promise that the price will rise; the company is seeking customers who will actually build and live in their communities. Amrep Corp. promises to give a customer his money back if he visits his property within six months of signing a purchase agreement and decides that he does not like it. But investigators...
...match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces with a Memphis shoe salesman, picking up a fast $100, and then took $300 in a swift one set match from Larry King, Billie Jean's husband. Billie Jean, meanwhile, was training hard by lifting weights to strengthen her ailing knee and by playing tournament tennis against the best women players around...