Word: salesman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bewildered and unenthusiastic about Cambodia, but the demonstrations are moving its members to rally behind the President. Many of them argue that "the President knows all the facts?he must know what he is doing." Even more of them express frank hostility toward the students. Says a Chicago ad salesman: "I'm getting to feel like I'd actually enjoy going out and shooting some of these people. I'm just so goddamned mad. They're trying to destroy everything I've worked for?for myself, my wife and my children...
...book trade, spot commercials bobbed up on Today, Tonight and other shows. Viewers were offered an unusual trade-in deal: If they bought the new book, they could send their old dictionary into Houghton Mifflin and get $1 back. The book's editor, William Morris, a onetime salesman who had a brief fling in summer stock, agreed to stay on after his contract expired and help with the promotion. He grew a silver Vandyke beard and plugged the book in a three-month whirlwind of appearances...
...citation accompanying his honorary degree from the University of Cincinnati ticked off a singular list of occupations: "Delivery boy, dancing teacher, shoe salesman, soda jerk and amateur prizefighter-which last activity may share responsibility for his famous profile." Cracked Bob Hope, L.H.D.: "Who wrote that? Crosby...
...idea of a magazine was suggested by Jonathan Blount, then 24 and an ad salesman for the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co. "All right," said the Shearson, Hammill adviser. "There's Cecil Hollingsworth behind you, and he knows about printing. And Ed Lewis over here is a financial planner for First National City Bank, and he knows financial planning." Joined by Clarence Smith, a salesman for Prudential Insurance, the foursome began getting together at the end of their regular workdays. From publishing talent up and down Manhattan's Madison and Sixth Avenues, they picked up ideas and expertise...
...those who cannot sleep amid too much quiet, New York's Hammacher Schlemmer sells a device called Sleep Sound for $19.50. It whooshes like "a breeze in the trees," according to one salesman. And for those sound-starved insomniacs who want something cheaper, Syntonic Research has produced a simple record with one side devoted entirely to the sound of surf, the other to tropical-bird noises...