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...does not faze her. "I feel as though I'm in the second generation of liberation," she says. "The first generation, that of my women professors at Brown, taught me that there were alternatives to staying home and being a housewife. There is nothing bizarre about a traveling salesman, but somehow the male idea of the female is violated by a woman commuting. Sometimes I feel that the men I sit next to on the plane consider me an extra stewardess-that I should converse and be entertaining. When I told one man that I was busy working...
...encourage a steady stream of new faces-and new money-there is a three-day parking limit on the Stardust grounds. Few campers stay that long; there is always someplace else to go. For some, keeping on the move is what it is all about. Foster Root, a retired salesman, sold his house in New Jersey and took to the road with his wife. "We're camping 52 weeks a year," he says, "until we decide where to live...
Lincoln Sr. started his career with the University Press as a salesman in 1945. While thumbing through old book catalogs last week, Lincoln remarked proudly that 1945 was the year of many of what he called the University Press "greats," including the first edition of the Harvard Dictionary of Music...
Lincoln, a Tufts graduate, said he is pleased with a job that has provided such a natural opportunity for him to continue expanding his education. Lincoln said he found it helpful as a young salesman to know his product from the inside out. Since then, he has made it a habit to read a substantial part of every book published by the University Press--over 100 titles a year...
Salesmen collect about 45% of the price of each book, thus pocketing almost $16 for every Bible sold. In addition, Southwestern pyramids its commissions to reward the chain of students and executives above the salesman for each sale-and even the students' recruiters, who are often older fellow salesmen. Students who manage to stretch out their academic careers to six or seven years-and build up a big junior marketing force-have earned as much as $24,000 in one summer through sales and such residual commissions...