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...grave in Fort Worth's Rose Hill cemetery. The arrangements were made quietly by the Secret Service. The only mourners were Oswald's 56-year-old mother Marguerite, his Russian-born wife Marina, 22, his two baby daughters and his brother Robert, 29, a Denton, Texas, brick salesman...
...timers never even knew he existed. He was a "novelty salesman," a euphemism for a dollar-grubber who would sell virtually anything, even if it was a little hot. He peddled cigars, janitorial supplies, calendars, and, says his brother Hyman by way of explaining Jack's innate patriotism, "things like statues of General MacArthur and others of national interest...
...momentary gap in the uproar-drops a quiet line that tops them all. "Doc" Simon, as he has been called since he used to compete with physicians in their attempts to diagnose family sicknesses, has been writing jokes since he was in his teens. His father was a dress salesman, and the Simons lived in an apartment in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Doc and his older brother Danny were a professional writing team for more than ten years, servicing miscellaneous nightclub and television comics from Phil Silvers to Jackie Gleason...
Into Foreign Markets. Nabisco's top seller is still its Premium Saltine, which reinforces the company's principle that most Americans prefer plain foods. President Bickmore himself is a plain-food man. A tithing Mormon from Paradise, Utah, he began in 1933 as a Nabisco salesman in Pocatello, Idaho, but was laid off in a Depression cutback, and started again as a porter in a company warehouse. As he worked up the line, Bickmore took some studies on the side from both Dale Carnegie and Harvard Business School. Since becoming chief executive three years ago, he has bought...
...Jewbird tells of a talking bird named Schwartz, who flies into the Lower East Side apartment of Salesman Harry Cohen, seeking refuge from the "anti-Semeets" (eagles, vultures and hawks who pick out the eyes of other birds). Schwartz settles down, helps Cohen's small son with his lessons, and reads him comics when the boy is sick. But Cohen cannot stand the bird, finally drives him out into the winter snow. In the spring the boy finds him in a lot, both eyes plucked clean, presumably by "anti-Semeets...