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Blonde Lipstick. Schwartz is preoccupied with the drug market partly because he suffered from tuberculosis as a child, fell three years behind in school in Springfield, Mass.; later he went to work as a salesman for a surgical-instruments company. Rejected by both the Army and the Navy in World...
...counting." There is a deadpan investigation into the real origin of those statues of Confederate foot soldiers that decorate the central squares of all Southern small towns, and why they so much resemble the statues of Garibaldi in all small Italian towns: seems there was this enterprising Italian sculpture salesman with fancy clothes and an engraved calling card...
Macy's Mr. Straus should not play the part of the indignant customer, but the part of the overburdened salesman, who is usually expected to do the work of three people for the salary of one. Salespeople no longer have time to cater to the individual customer, and the customer knows this. What could Mr. Straus do without his poorly paid 4,828 salespeople...
June Lockhart has made a change from star to salesman, but she has remained on the same show. She used to be big in the Lassie series, of course, but when a change of format eased her out of the narrative, she simply did a 60-seconder for Kool-Aid, the show's sponsor, and earned $30,000 for it. She also talks to schoolchildren about Crest Toothpaste. This, says her agent, "keeps her mother image intact...
Died. Thor Thors, 61, Iceland's ruddy, affable diplomat of all work, delegate to the U.N., Ambassador to the U.S., Argentina, Brazil, Mexico and Canada, Minister to Cuba, and foremost salesman of home-grown codfish, who, whenever fellow diplomats asked how come so many jobs, smilingly replied: "My country cannot afford more ambassadors": of internal hemorrhaging two weeks after the death of Brother Olafur Thors, Iceland's five-time Prime Minister and leading statesman; in Washington...