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...became linked with Hughes, Irving devoted himself to a life of semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
...determine whether the brokerage salesmen involved were so hungry for commissions that they broke a Big Board rule requiring them to "use due diligence to learn the essential facts relative to every customer." Reynolds Securities, which handled more than $100,000 of Treff's trades, has fired the salesman who dealt with him. All salesmen involved in the incident were ordered to appear before stock exchange officials. Exchange administrators plan to tighten enforcement of trading and credit rules. Eventually, they suggest, customers may find it more difficult to open an account, or even to make transactions over the phone...
Walt Disney was something of an artist, also a sideshow barker, a Truly Great American, and eternal-youth tonic salesman. Richard Schickel, in his nasty biography of Disney. The Disney Version, casts the entire history of Disneyland in a pseudo-leftist critique of consumer oriented art. He sees Disney's fraudulent, regressive amusement-park kingdom as a typically American phenomenon, attributes Disney's right-wing politics to a sexual assault in his growth, and all in all is thoroughly at war with his subject matter. What distinguiuhes Disney from other "artists" is that he also was a businessman, and combined...
Richard L. Alfred '74--who filed suit last month for $400--claims that a salesman refused to sell him Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf when Alfred discovered three letters in the back of the book written by the authoress...
Starr said that the salesman found the letters before the sale of the book took place. He pointed out that regardless of who found the letters, he is the owner of both the letters and the book since Alfred did not buy either...