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...sane men endure such a thankless job as officiating? It is not the money, they say, but the thrill of being in the game. Says N.F.L. Referee Bernie Ulman, a sporting-goods salesman who, like many pro officials, is a former college-football player: "It's the one good way of staying with football after you're too old to play...
Singles veterans are beginning to form judgments: "The thing about the Borscht Belt-Grossinger's, the Concord-that sort of thing," says a Bloomingdale's shoe salesman, "is that all those broads go up there with a chip on their shoulder, ready to check out the first time they get a soft egg. But on a cruise-who's to check...
...father was a cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both excelled as law students. They each married relatively young, Rogers to Adele Langston,* a classmate at Cornell Law, who gave up her own career to rear three sons and a daughter...
Still, not all did well. Britain's exports rose only 45% during the same period. And while the U.S. remained the world's biggest salesman, its growth of 91% in total trade over ten years rates only two cheers. In fact, the U.S. is on the verge of a crisis in exports...
...planning than day-to-day operations. He shares the top management in close tandem with Robert Keith, the chief executive. When Keith moved Hanold up from treasurer last year and took the post of chairman for himself, he deliberately left the division of authority vague. Keith, a longtime Pillsbury salesman, says that he wanted a man to move Pillsbury into untapped areas...