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...financier whom the President has called "our country's No. 1 bond salesman" was in Washington to confer with the Treasury Department...
L.B.J. introduced him to White House reporters. "No one," said Johnson, "has done more to help us work with our economy" than Leslie T. Hope, 64, a wealthy, California-based cosmopolite whose unpaid avocation is promoting U.S. Government bonds. In a curiously disjointed response, the salesman touched on Shirley Temple Black's campaign for Congress ("Ev Dirksen is the only one who complains that one set of curls in Congress is enough"), gave informal confirmation to suspicions that he is a White House intimate. "Lynda looked just marvelous," said Hope, nicknamed Bob, "and I'm sure...
...demand of sorts first worked on Kroyer in 1942 when, at 28, he was idling along in a dull job as a salesman for the family firm. Struck with an idea, he designed a pair of triangles to be sewn into the droopy women's knitwear bathing suits of the day. The new wrinkle-first built-in bras ever to grace Danish suits-proved to be a standout at the beaches and a smash at the cash register...
...Dear General Marsbars-Advice to the Draft Resister." All in all, there are more than 100 counseling centers around the country. Milwaukee peace workers last month saw nothing at all odd in setting up a draft-guidance stand at the Wisconsin State Fair in West Allis-with a fudge salesman on one side and a kew-pie-doll barker on the other...
...early engagements were at the unemployment-insurance office, and she had to live in a cold-water flat "where the roaches rattled the dishes." Within three months, though, she was accosted in Greenwich Village by a Hungarian producer named William Gyimes, who looked "like an Oriental-rug salesman." "Hey," he said, "are you an actress?" "He's crazy," she thought. But she said yes and was launched...