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University police last night stopped a salesman from distributing questionnaires in Winthrop House for a computer dating service much like Operation Match...
...four people. Four months ago, a resident of Caieiras, near São Paulo, tried to burn an African beehive stuck in a chimney of a local bar. In a "buzzing mass that darkened the sun," one reported, that the Africans swarmed into the bar stung a traveling wine salesman senseless, left so many stingers in the bald dome of the bartender that he "thought he was growing hair again." In three hours the bees stung 500 people. Then they buzzed off across nearby farms where they left behind flocks of dead chickens, a dozen writhing dogs, and two horses...
...crack clothing salesman working his way through U.C.L.A., Edward William Carter did so well that he went out and hired a boy to do nothing but write up his orders. "I never do anything," says Carter, "if I can get somebody else to do it." That philosophy of delegation has seemed to work. At 34 only eight years out of graduate school, Carter became the $60,000-a-year merchandise manager of the May Co. in Los Angeles. Today he is the president and chief executive of California's 28-store Broadway-Hale retailing chain which he has built...
...Brookings Institution and Occidental College and as a director of the Stanford Research Institute. Though his rimless glasses and whisper-quiet voice give him the air of a professor (he once declined an offer from the Harvard Business School to become one), Carter is still a shrewd salesman. When he was asked to raise 12 million to help build the Los Angeles Art Museum, he persuaded 23 acquaintances to donate $125,000 and up by offering to name a gallery after each and urging: "Here's a chance to leave your footprints in the community. Ed Carter, of course...
Nellson, a onetime space salesman for U.S. classified telephone directories, hit on his idea when he discovered that many U.S. customers were anxious to advertise in foreign directories, but that most government-owned telephone companies abroad would not accept their advertising. With three friends, Nellson raised $690,000, designed a hard-cover multilingual book in which listings are printed in English, French, Spanish and German, found agents abroad to check out telephone listings and sell advertising space, which costs $1,200 a page. Revenues from the third edition have already reached $475,000, helped by a 30% rise in advertising...