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Faith. The talent was virtually parthenogenetic, since there was no theatrical tradition on either side of his family. His father was a piano salesman who eked out a precarious living. His mother played the piano passably, and Coward acknowledged that he was linked to her with "an umbilical cord of piano wire." By the time Noël donned his first childish sailor suit, Mrs. Coward had discovered her vocation: stage mother. The average mother is content to believe that her son is bright; the stage mother has a fanatical conviction that her son is a genius. With no discernible...
According to Bolingbrook police, Fred Flynn, a steel-and-copper salesman, was in desperate financial straits and had been moonlighting as a cab driver when he met Miller, who mentioned his yearning for a child bride. Flynn offered his stepdaughter, Miller offered the $30,000 in bonds, and the sale was concluded...
Died. William Benton, 72, former Democratic Senator from Connecticut and publisher of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; in Manhattan. Benton helped work his way through Yale as a high-stake auction-bridge player, later gave up a Rhodes scholarship and disappointed family hopes for a ministerial career to become a salesman, then an advertising copywriter. In the firm he established with Chester Bowles, he pioneered in radio advertising and programs that used studio audiences, and retired a millionaire from Benton & Bowles at 35. In 1943, as a vice president of the University of Chicago, he acquired the faltering Encyclopaedia Britannica from Sears...
...Harvard ski team captain Ben Steele stole into a paperback bookstore on Mass Ave. Why was he smiling so? With some advice whispered to him by a tan, dark-haired woman from Woodstock, Vt., he made his choice from the fiction rack. A glance at the titles before the salesman slipped the two slim tomes into a bag seemed a clue. If the titles did not exactly tell a tale, they hinted at one. Steele, ever the mild-mannered, wild blond-haired, slight-of-limb, mightily-muscled, bespectacled young hawk, tucked his new bought copies of Deliverance...
...eight months until he hired her. She pursued Paula Prentiss and Husband Dick Benjamin even through Paula's nervous breakdown, visiting her at the hospital "when no one else would," recalls Benjamin; five years later they signed. Grins former Partner Korman: "She would have made the best Electrolux salesman of them...