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...become big. The richest and one of the biggest independent growers in the U.S. is balding Bennie Clyde Rogers, 58, of Morton, Miss., who has 6,000,000 birds under his wing and boasts that last year his several businesses grossed $40 million. Rogers started as a feed salesman, swapping his Purina chicken feed for eggs from hard-pressed farmers during the Depression and piling up wealth with dried eggs during World War II. Today he raises 1,000,000 chicks on his own land, and, like most big growers, farms out the rest (to 220 contract farmers). The farmers...
...Chamber of Commerce, savvy adviser and special envoy (to Latin America, Russia, the Middle East) for three U.S. Presidents, since 1945 Hollywood's unflagging champion as head of the Motion Picture Association; following a stroke; in Washington. A handsome, athletic extravert, Johnston began as a Spokane vacuum-cleaner salesman, became the Northwest's biggest independent appliance distributor. As movie watchdog, he led the campaign to blacklist movie Communists, coped with foreign competition by quietly liberalizing production codes to the point that even the once-rejected The Moon Is Blue was deemed nonblue enough to pass muster...
Only Memory. Testimony from both sides drew a picture of a magazine that had rushed headlong into print with a story only superficially checked. By the Post's own admission, the story's validty rested almost entirely on notes taken by Atlanta Insurance Salesman George Burnett, who said he had accidentally eavesdropped on a pre-game telephone conversation in which Georgia's Butts seemed to be spilling Georgia football secrets to Paul ("Bear") Bryant, head coach at the University of Alabama. But when the Post sent Freelance Reporter Frank Graham Jr. down to Atlanta, the salesman could...
...problems of aerodynamics. He drew up a brochure, built a tiny-scale model of his car, went in search of sponsors. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donated the special tires he needed, and Shell Oil Co. agreed to pick up the rest of the bill. "He's a remarkable salesman," said one Shell executive. Shell's contribution came to about...
...turned an equally cold eye on mutual fund salesmen. The lure of plumper commissions prompts salesmen to tout the plans with front-end loads above all others. An Investors Planning Corp. salesman who sells a 121-year front-end plan at $20 a month, for example, collects $57 in commissions on the first year's payments of $240; if he sells a $1,000 one-payment plan, he gets only $32.50. Most mutual fund salesmen are part-timers who earn less than $1,000 a year, and many of them are ill-trained recruits who give up the game...