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Seven years ago, Morton Eisen, a New York City wholesale shoe salesman, became convinced that his stockbroker had charged excessive fees. All other buyers and sellers of odd lots of stock (fewer than 100 shares), Eisen figured, were discriminated against in the same manner. He brought a class action on behalf of all who had paid the inflated fees-a total that has now reached 6,000,000 people-and he won a signal victory. Smaller class actions had long been common, but in Eisen's case a U.S. court of appeals held for the first time that federal...
...Ralph Lombardi, 49, arrived in Viet Nam in 1962 as a securities salesman, leaving behind a wife, a Thunderbird and a town house in Brooklyn Heights. "When I came here," he says, "I had high blood pressure and ulcers -after the first year, both problems had vanished." Lombardi never got around to selling stocks. Instead, he played piano in a Saigon hotel for 18 months at $900 a month: when the American presence was at its highest levels, a polished entertainer like Lombardi was very much in demand. Today he ekes out a meager living by teaching at the University...
...whether students will realize Calder's monetary promises is unclear. Allen W. Levy '73, who worked for Southwestern two years ago, said Tuesday that he thought the average income of a student salesman was between $1200 and $1400 each summer. He said he had done well, but that he had refused to sell it again because he had no faith in the product...
Miller's plays include "A View from the Bridge," "The Crucible," "All My Sons" and "Death of a Salesman," for which he won a Pulitzer Prize...
...servants. But most of them have been killed by a buzz bomb in London in 1944, and they exist, haunted by old loves, fears and hates. Until we learn that they are ghosts, it is assumed that they are merely mad-especially Elsa. She is sure that a shoe salesman in a Madison Avenue shop is really an SS man named Kiel, long defunct, with whom she had a brief liaison during the war at a British intelligence installation. Elsa's shadow falls the wrong way-always a bad sign-and she practices the kind of unpredictable tyranny that...