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...indicate that he is a stocky fellow with Napoleonic tendencies. It is only necessary to say that he is an opportunist, with an eye that sharpened slowly. He was nearly 50 when he saw his chance to be a new De Mille. He had drifted around as a salesman for M-G-M in France, a producer for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, a photographer of art treasures in Rome, and a lecturer...
Making a Score. Lavin is the kind of restlessly imaginative salesman who probably would have done well in anything that involves going for broke in fluid markets. A University of Washington graduate ('40), he worked for a number of small companies (everything from moth cakes to perfume), directed the TV ad campaign that made Stopette the best-selling deodorant of the early 1950s. Unhappy to see someone else get most of the benefit, he borrowed $488,000 in 1955 to buy Alberto-Culver and promptly dropped 24 of its 25 small-selling products to concentrate on VO5 hairdressing, began...
Beckwith returned to Greenwood, worked for ten years as a tobacco salesman. He and his wife were divorced, remarried, then separated-and Beckwith lived alone in the tumble-down family house. Last January he became a fertilizer salesman. He was glib enough to be good at selling but, as one employer obliquely put it, he was "overly enthusiastic about things not concerned with...
...Eyebrow for a Toupee. A strapping man (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) who is called "Cupey" by some friends because of his bald head and cherubic face, George Love never set out to be coalman or auto magnate. After Princeton and Harvard Business School, he became a bond salesman in Chicago and St. Louis, but left to run three family coal mines outside Pittsburgh. He did well enough to be offered a Consol job by George Humphrey, who was then heading Consol for its principal shareholder (now 21%), M. A. Hanna Co. Love succeeded Humphrey as president...
...sailor emptied a pistol at a spectator who refused to rise for The Star-Spangled Banner, and the crowd cheered. In Hammond, Ind., a jury took only two minutes to acquit the assassin of an alien who yelled: "To hell with the U.S." In Waterbury, Conn., a salesman was sentenced to six months in jail for remarking that Lenin was "one of the brainiest" of the world's leaders...