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...Krystal sees it: out of his unconscious needs, the investor wishfully attaches "magical feelings of omnipotence and omniscience" to the government, big corporations, and even the stock exchange itself. "The anxieties of the consumer" drive him to periodically reendow his salesman or broker with an aura of authority and safety that was shattered as recently as the last time his stocks took a tumble...
...Alsop, expressed "regret at the unfortunate stir" and "fullest confidence" in Stevenson. Toward week's end, while introducing the President at a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation dinner, Master of Ceremonies Stevenson joked about the whole flap. Introducing Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver as an "instant peace" salesman so successful that "he makes the United Nations cry for it," Stevenson quipped: "As for me. I've been crying for it for the past week." Adlai quoted Joseph Pulitzer's observation, "Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady"-but added: "A newspaper can always...
...Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...
Before a silent crowd of parents and children, a salesman was selling gyroscopes in a voice like Jere Whiting being the moon. "Hurry now get them right here now's the time to get it while you have the chance we only have a few thousand," he said. No one blinked...
Though his company is only six months old, Thrifty's President Wilbur Fisk Stemmons, 50, a onetime used-car salesman, already has a fleet of 140 new autos, and sales running at the rate of $500,000 a year. Many other cut-rate car rental companies are also springing up across the U.S. Though some quickly fold for lack of capital and know-how, many are doing remarkably well. Chicago's Budget Rent-A-Car, bossed by Jules W. Lederer, 45, husband of Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers, has opened franchised branches in 50 cities, plans to open...