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Nose to Tip. Such jitters apparently never afflict Toralf Engan, 26, a brown-haired, slightly built sporting-goods salesman from Trondheim. Norway. Engan has been skiing since he was three, jumping since he was seven, and outjumping almost everyone for nearly a decade. "When I jump." he says. "I feel like a bird. Birds aren't afraid to fly. Why should...
...schoolteacher, Kerr was born near Ada, in what was then Indian territory, worked as a salesman and schoolteacher, passed the bar after clerking in an Ada law office. In 1929, he joined with his brother-in-law to start a shaky drilling company that eventually became the $200 million Kerr-McGee corporation. Kerr entered Democratic politics as a fund raiser and spokesman for the oil and gas industries, was elected Governor in 1942, and went to the Senate in 1948. He became the second-ranking Democrat, behind Virginia's Byrd, on the Senate Finance Committee. As such, he last...
...luxury imports and pushing bargain-priced exports, and by slapping surcharges on tariffs at a time when most other nations are lowering theirs, Canada has done a considerable job of turning its economy around. Totting up accounts. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees cited evidence as cheerful as his salesman's smile...
...Times (and the Observer), and in no time at all the house was sold, lock, stock and faded, flyblown decor. By couching his property description in readably deprecating prose, a chipper British real estate agent named Roy Brooks at 46 has become London's most effective real estate salesman...
...Manhattan department store salesman. Dale was a blunt redhead with a lifelong fascination for fire engines. He began playing the horses when he was 14, later joined a Wall Street firm that specialized in railroad bonds, was one of the first to make a fortune out of the sale of public utility securities. His wife Maud had a passion for art that proved contagious. "She had the knowledge.'' Dale said. "I had the acquisitiveness.'' And that was how the great collection began...