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SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfred Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...
...percentage of the vote: 72%. For a while, in fact, it looked as if Allen would get 100%. Until the last filing day for the election, he was the only mayoralty candidate. Then, five minutes before the deadline, in jumped Milton M. ("Muggsy") Smith, 63, an Atlanta insurance salesman who made a name during 16 years in the state legislature trying to repeal every segregation law in Georgia. But Muggsy, who had run against Allen in 1961, never had a chance...
...first car was an open-tonneau air-cooled 1903 Franklin with a side crank. And over the years he tooled around for more than 1,500,000 miles as a traveling salesman on his way to a business fortune before going into politics. But now, what with the traffic and cloverleafs and all, says New Jersey's former Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes, 86, "this driving is getting to be an engineering feat." The Senator is "perfectly able physically" to perform the feat, he says, but just a little tired of it. Chauffeured over to Trenton's Department...
Married. Orville Enoch Hodge, 60, former Illinois state auditor and gubernatorial hopeful who in 1956 went to jail for embezzling $1,450,000 in public funds, was paroled in 1963 to make a new life as an Oldsmobile salesman; and Viola Coombs, 61, a home-town secretary; both for the second time; in Granite City...
SQUARE'S PROGRESS, by Wilfrid Sheed. When his wife calls him a bore and leaves him, a nice, adjusted insurance salesman sets out to discover the Cool World. He learns that hips are duller than squares...