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...Simple. When Butts's suit came to trial last week, the Post led off, since the defense has the burden of proving truth. First major witness was Atlanta Insurance Salesman George Burnett, who claimed to have been an accidental eavesdropper on a pregame phone call between Butts and Bryant. It was Burnett's notes on what he said he heard that were the basis of the Post expos...
Breedlove paid for his dream too. In stead of going to college, he took a variety of odd jobs (welder, fireman, sports car salesman) that allowed him free time to build fast cars and race them. His first wife divorced him. In 1959 he set to work on Spirit in earnest. Before he was through, he quit his job, exhausted his unemployment compensation, was scrimping by on the earnings of his second wife, a waitress in a drive-in (and a car buff like himself). "Four years," he said last week. "Four years of seven days a week, 18 hours...
...Brandeis Forum Theater has presented four plays this summer dealing with "social problems." Two earlier plays, All The King's Men and Death Of a Salesman, used specific incidents of political corruption and man's estrangement from society to illuminate and comment on universal moral dilemmas. Eugene O'Neill's All God's Chillun Got Wings, which opened at Brandeis Tuesday, is not as successful as its predecessors for several reasons. But a major reason is extraneous to both the play itself and the present production...
Insuring the Swazis. When U.S.-born Isidore William Schlesinger arrived in Cape Town in 1896, South Africa was in the throes of the gold rush. A salesman from Manhattan's Lower East Side, I. W. preferred to seek his fortune above the ground. Soon the diminutive (5 ft. 2 in.) drummer was coursing the veld in horse and buggy, selling life insurance to gold miners and Swazi chiefs for the U.S.'s Equitable Life Assurance-and earning a record $30,000 a year in commissions. He set up his own insurance company, then turned to real estate...
Misty Idealism. Even though jammed galleries do not often bring big sales, the dealers on La Cienega are apt to speak of Monday night with a sort of misty idealism. "The Monday night promenade," says Jerry Jerome, a onetime furniture salesman who is now co-owner of the Ceeje Gallery, "helps us to familiarize people without any sense of artistic values with what is being done here." It is, of course, a big two hours between Henry Moore and Billy Al, and just where the La Cienega crowd's values lie at closing time...