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...seems to be growing rapidly. This represents a substantial rebuilding job since the low point in 1958, when an angry group of armed Lumbee Indians whooped into a Klan rally in Robeson County, N.C., sent some 75 Klansmen fleeing in panic. Chief rebuilder has been Shelton, a tire salesman who emerged from a bitter 1961 split in leadership of the old Klan to head the new United Klans of America...
...Black Notebook. When no one at Ford headquarters in Dearborn would take him on as a salesman, he quit the company, went out on his own and got a job in the sales office of the Ford assembly plant in Chester, Pa. Impressed by the way the aggressive Iacocca whipped lagging Ford dealerships to higher sales, his boss (Charles Beacham, now Ford's marketing vice president) took him along when he progressed to sales manager of a region stretching from Pennsylvania to Florida...
...then came the final indignity: Jack Ruby, too, turned on his defender and fired him. Ruby's brother Hyman, a Chicago salesman, explained that Belli's opinions about Dallas, the jury, Judge Brown and D.A. Wade "are not shared by Jack or any member of his family...
Cheever's father, a model for Leander in the Wapshot books, was a shoe salesman-"a commercial traveler with a flower in his buttonhole," says Cheever. He had a way with and an eye for the ladies, did not marry till late in life. He was 49 when John was born. Soon thereafter he began to have financial trouble...
AFTER quitting school in the eighth grade and bouncing around as a stunt pilot, semipro baseball player and riveter, Thomas Elliott Millsop landed a salesman's job at Weirton Steel in 1927. His first week there he astounded everyone by writing a $1,000,000 order. This persuasive salesman is now the chairman of Weirton's parent, National Steel, and has built it into the nation's fourth largest steelmaker, with 1963 sales of $846 million. Last week he announced that National will build the world's first mill containing all three of the industry...