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...Craig was born with a problem: his father, grandfather, great-grandfather and two uncles were all lawyers. The legal profession seemed an unavoidable family inheritance, and he wanted to escape. He went to Stanford determined to become an engineer, switched to economics, worked as a fuel and light bulb salesman after graduation. Only when he found out how hard it was to make a living did Craig give in and go back to Stanford to study law. He was on the right track at last. He has prospered handsomely as a corporation lawyer in Phoenix, Ariz., and today...
...Navy bird dog who spotted Staubach was Cincinnati Businessman Rich ard Kleinfeldt, and he still comes to a twanging point every time he thinks about it. The only son of a salesman, Roger was the original Wheaties ad-neat, well-mannered, studious, and absolute murder on a football field. By the time he was a senior at Cincinnati's Roman Catholic Purcell High School (B student, nine-letterman, president of the student council), the whole city was talking about his Saturday afternoon heroics. "Purcell had a reputation for being a school where the quarterback never got dirty," says...
...Gamble), but a man cannot live by bread alone. As an artist, Irwin earnestly and frequently explained to the press, he was hurt by what happened to his scripts after he turned them in. Words were changed. Sometimes whole scenes were struck out by some thick-fingered fur salesman who had never read anything more difficult than a ledger. Sizzling from Hollywood's ignominies (and loaded with Hollywood's gold), Scriptwriter Shaw last year at last devised a stratagem to baffle the barbarians. He wrote a picture and then produced it himself-at a cost of about...
Well, he can have it. For one thing, his script urgently requires the attention of that fur salesman. For another, it tells a story that has been told, and told more excitingly, a hundred times before: the story of the innocent young American girl who goes to wicked old Paris and soon loses her illusions and everything. Jean Seberg as usual (Breathless, Playtime) plays the American in Paris, and as usual she wins the customer's sympathy-she tries so hard...
...friend's funeral, or companies closing when one of the officers dies, so that all the employees can turn out for the service." "I don't know whether the younger generation doesn't care, or what it is," says Houston Burial Insurance Salesman Victor Landig. "A few years ago when a schoolteacher died, the whole school turned out, but now the only people who attend are those...