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...seem to revise his delivery according to its impact. His voice was so low-keyed that the people in back complained he was unexciting; those in front were far more moved. It is Goodwin's argument, not his delivery, that is convincing. The man is an analyst, not a salesman...
...romance held firm until Dowling left the Mid-West to come to Yale. "I almost died," Sue said at the time. "Yes, it was hard leaving her," Brian recalls, "but I wanted to go to Yale and play football." Sue has since married, Marvin Plumb, a tractor salesman...
Died. Rollie B. Hall, 86, who with his brothers Joyce and William founded Hallmark Cards, Inc., biggest manufacturer of greeting cards; in Kansas City, Mo. Rollie was the salesman of the team that started printing postcards with a $474 investment in 1907, then, by dreaming up greetings or condolences for every occasion, grew into a firm that now produces more than 7,000,000 cards a day, with an estimated annual sale of $200 million. Died. Edward R. Burke, 87, Democratic Senator from Nebraska from 1935-41, who started as a New Dealer, but soon opposed F.D.R.'s attempts...
...Lincoln Center Repertory Theater has ever offered, Lee J. Cobb gives the finest performance of a lengthy and distinguished acting career. A graduate of the militantly proletarian Group Theater of the late '30s, he was the quintessential Willy Loman in Broadway's first production of Death of a Salesman. Conventionally cast as a Hollywood heavy in many of his countless films (among them: Thieves' Highway, On the Waterfront), he almost invariably brought glimmerings of insight to even the most routine parts. At the age of 57, he is quite clearly ready for the challenge of Lear. His king is blind...
...professor, Tattersall explores the U.S. penchant for nerve-racking upward mobility by trying it in reverse. In an excess of whim and Weltschmerz, he runs through a job in advertising ("I stink, therefore I am"), a stint as a successful TV singer, and on down through door-to-door salesman, street peddler, gardener, handyman and tramp. He winds up living in a run-down tenement, selling canned "fresh air" door to door to help take care of a mumbling mongoloid boy and a drunken mongrel basset hound. One night he gets his head caught in a dog door that...