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Alfred said last month that the Starr Book Shop had been responsible for a "breach of contract" when the salesman refused to sell him valuable letters written by Virginia Woolf that were inside a book he intended to buy. He sued for value of the letters...
...handicapped persons quickly raised nearly $100,000. An article on a little Brooklyn girl who wanted to receive Christmas greetings drew not only 70,000 cards but a letter from Pat Nixon as well. Such pulling power also attracts advertisers. Though the paper employs not a single ad salesman, it gets 40% more unsolicited advertising than it can accommodate, and Pope insists that he could turn a profit with no advertising at all, thanks to high circulation and low overhead...
...Salesman. The son of a lumber surveyor who died of alcoholism, Joey was a school dropout at 15. His first full-time job was as a reporter for a newspaper in St. John's. Smitten with socialism, he emigrated to New York City, where he wrote inflammatory stories for the socialist daily Call. Returning to Newfoundland in 1925, Joey became a labor leader and at one point "walked myself down to skin and grief" over 600 miles of railroad track to organize the section...
Smallwood promised to bring his people the "benefits that the rest of North America takes for granted" -meaning free public education, electricity and roads in the outports. The benefits also included jobs, and Joey was an able, almost irresistible salesman for his province on his frequent trips abroad. He personally badgered Winston Churchill into approving British support for the $1 billion hydroelectric development now being built at Churchill Falls. In 1965 Smallwood visited Helsinki on an industry-scouting trip with Richard Nixon, then a corporate lawyer; Joey accompanied Nixon on a side trip to Moscow and proposed, at Moscow University...
...years, Nigel John Davies has been a builder's laborer, a bodyguard, a fairgrounds boxer, an assistant at a beauty parlor, a bet taker at a London bookmaking shop, a salesman of nudie films, a shorthand typist, a paint stripper, a bric-a-brac salesman at the Chelsea antique market, and an interior decorator. He has also been unemployed. But all that was before he met a pencil-thin 15-year-old named Lesley Hornby and said: "You're like a twig. I'll call you Twiggy...