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News Front was started in 1957 by Baldwin H. Ward, 51, a onetime advertising salesman, and nearly died at birth. Advertising, News Front's sole source of revenue, fell to three to five pages an issue during the recession of 1957-58. All told, says Ward, he dropped $400,000 before nudging News Front barely into the black last fall...
...Admiral Ben Moreell in 1947 gathered momentum when Avery Comfort Adams, a supersalesman drafted from Pittsburgh Steel, took over in 1957. Shortly before his death, Adams retired last year; since then, Jones & Laughlin has operated under two bosses working in tandem. President William Johnston Stephens, 57, an outgoing salesman type like Adams, runs the day-to-day operations. Chairman Charles Milton Beeghly, 55, who was president under Adams, manages money matters. Though a wizard at trimming costs, he says: "The steel industry is a sinkhole for money. To forge ahead, you've got to gamble...
...Else." The case against Beckwith, a Greenwood fertilizer salesman, hinged on a .30/06 Enfield rifle, found near a clump of sweetgum trees across the street from Evers' home in Jackson on the morning after the murder. A fingerprint of Beckwith's was found on the weapon's telescopic sight...
Thanks to his Princeton contacts, Forrestal landed a job as a salesman with the New York investment banking firm of Dillon, Read. Intense, hard-driving and a glutton for work, he became head of the sales force in three years, eventually company president. On the way up, he engineered deals that were the talk of Wall Street. But one of them furnished his enemies with ammunition to use against him in later years. Forrestal set up a bogus Canadian corporation in order to avoid paying some $100,000 in taxes-not an illegal act, writes Rogow, but not a very...
...used the flashback technique in Salesman, but in his new work he has gone far beyond this. The play's action takes place entirely "in the mind, thought, and memory of Quentin," who is never off stage for an instant. Everything is ruled by what Quentin remembers, as he remembers it. Miller has put the mind's eye on the stage. In the mind, the past and the present are coetaneous. Thus the play does not flow chronologically. Quentin's thoughts dart back and forth with lightning speed. The characters, whether mute or speaking, move into and out of focus...