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Most executives would consider such remarks preachy, overly materialistic or just plain corny, but Stone is no typical executive. An American original, he views himself as a salesman for self-motivation, an exemplar of the American dream. He laces his conversation with homilies, and he espouses a philosophy of hard work, clean living, and positive thinking that might be too much for even his friend, Norman Vincent Peale. Yet nobody can argue about the success of Clem Stone. At 66, he is one of the least-known of America's superrich...
...started out busking with pretty much the same motives in mind. At 15, he admits, he did not have the slightest idea what he wanted to do, and he left home because he was "a bit flighty." His first job was burgling. From that he graduated to ice cream salesman, crane driver, and 45 other different jobs (by his count). He now has seven children and is married to the mother of two of them. "When I'm rich enough," he says, "I hope to get all my kids and their mothers into one house with my wife...
...rock musicians, was rapping at the audience, mostly fortyish folk with company suits who were sucking booze from the bar and looking woozily over their shoulders at the weirdos on the stage. Occasionally a bleached-blonde hot tomato would do her version of the Swim with some paunchy insurance salesman, the type who would have had a lampshade on his head if there had been any around. "We play psychedelic love-rock," Douglas shouted to the impervious audience. Those of us in the second band, the Church Bizarre, laughed at him. The Cinema finished their set, and left the stage...
Today, at 45, McMahon is still pitching, and the folks are still buying. After six years as Johnny Carson's No. 2 man on NBC's Tonight Show, he ranks as TV's most effective salesman since the heyday of Arthur Godfrey. Besides appearing with Carson, McMahon hosts his own daily game show (Snap Judgment), and is getting ready to appear in his second movie, The Killing Time, in which he will play an F. Lee Bailey kind of lawyer defending a pathological killer. This week he moves up to No. 1 for a day as executive...
...industrial designer from Boston, for a day at Paradise Beach. Hannah, 52, a veteran of three singles weeks in the Catskills, has resignedly fallen in with a group of lady cribbage players from Westchester, and is on her way with them for a day of shopping. Tom, 27, a salesman from Cincinnati, has teamed with two other motorcycling enthusiasts for a day of island exploration...