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Such airpark sites are particularly attractive to manufacturers of light, high-value products (such as electronic components) that can be shipped by air, and to construction and research firms whose high-salaried officials must travel often. Many businessmen who locate in airparks pilot the planes themselves. Leroy Lott, a salesman for Bank Building & Equipment Corp., covers Texas and Oklahoma from Addison Airpark, says his Cessna's speed and convenience is about the equivalent of "another salesman working in my territory...
...next to-and on the wrong side of-the New York Central Railroad tracks. His father, an Italian immigrant grocer, sank some savings into mobile homes in 1951, but did poorly and begged son Art to try either to rescue or liquidate the small company. Decio, then a steel salesman, put in $3,200 of his own, recruited three friends and started to work...
...they make their money, the self-made millionaires have many traits in common. Almost all of them decided early in life to be their own bosses. Most of them started earning money while still children: by the time he was 13, Arthur Carlsberg had been a caddy, gardener, seed salesman and fruit trader. Many of them, like Merlyn Mickelson, never went to college; others, like Arthur Decio and Charles Bluhdorn, impatiently dropped out of college in order to study in the marketplace. At the beginning of their careers, they lived lean, often taking shoestring salaries in order to pump profits...
Back in Manhattan after peddling his new perfume "Y" ($35 an ounce) from one coast to the other, the traveling salesman lounged around his Regency Hotel suite in a bright red sweater and red trousers, waiting for his frilled dress shirt to come back from the laundry. "I have two or three others," murmured French Fashion Prince Yves St. Laurent, 29, "but I just like that one. It's been to 30 or 40 parties on this trip." After all those parties, Yves wanted to visit the Museum of Modern Art. "I want to see Mondrian, the father...
...only one of many such works that are currently outclassing the programs they interrupt. Alka-Seltzer, for example, has retired its ubiquitous, jolly salesman Speedy, substituted a diverting view of waistlines-a hula dancer's, a frugger's, a weight lifter's, a pants press-er's-and simply says, "no matter what shape your stomach's in, when it gets out of shape, take Alka-Seltzer." The public is getting the message-Alka-Seltzer sales have risen 16% this year-and so are sponsors...