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...ever called Gengras a plodder. He became a whiz salesman of bottled cooking gas in his teens, graduated to cars, and rapidly built a chain of automobile dealerships stretching from Rhode Island to Long Island. Then he expanded into public transit in his home state and insurance on an international scale. Along the way, Gengras presciently fathered eleven children, five of whom will be eligible to vote the G.O.P. ticket in November...
...also an audacious salesman whose knack for stretching a dollar impresses the investment bankers and makes him worth his annual salary of $132,000, second highest in the industry (after Pan Am Chairman Juan Trippe). Under Six, Continental has adopted "perpetual maintenance," a system that substitutes frequent brief overhauls for long layovers in the shop, helping to raise daily operating time of its aircraft to as much as 17 hours, well above the industry's norms. Six has been able to recruit outstanding executives. For seven years his No. 2 man was Harding Lawrence, now the successful president...
Long, Red Curls. Jack, a quiet, neat child with long, red curls, began working at eleven, helping his mother sell crockery from a pushcart. After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when...
...That Dime? Cummings has been quick to sell off his few losers,*and he is personally no spendthrift. He and his second wife Joanne, 37, live luxuriously. But, remembering the day when he was down to his last nickel after having been laid off as a part-time shoe salesman, Cummings will reach into the coin-return slot after a pay-station telephone call to see if his dime comes back. "I may be extravagant," he says, "but I'm not wasteful...
...story is simple to the point of artlessness. It is scarcely a story at all. The book follows the course of Frank Wynn, the Powder Man of the title, from piney-woods Arkansas to success as a dynamite salesman-a calling not at all improbable in a country where blasting reclaims swampland, opens farm ditches and helps tame the Mississippi in time of flood. Frank dies, having made the discovery that "it had been more fun making his money than having...