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...night a couple of years ago, when the candy-butcher hero of Gypsy appeared on stage, a man in the audience said to the adman sitting next to him: "Hey, you're missing the boat here. That guy ought to be a Butterfinger salesman." Since the first man was sales director of the company that makes Butterfingers, the adman was on the phone next morning to Warner Bros, offering to spend $3,000,000 on a promotional campaign if Warner would plug Butterfingers in the movie version of Gypsy. Now, in the wide-screen Gypsy, Candy Salesman Karl Maiden...
Sugarplums, College. It began last month when the Bureau of Engraving and Printing turned out 120 million oblong black, brown and yellow stamps to memorialize the late U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. Jewelry Salesman Leonard Sherman, 38, of Irvington, N.J., bought four 50-stamp sheets of the first-day Hammarskjolds, next day took them out of his drawer for a closer look. What he saw made his hands tremble: the yellow background was printed not only off-center but upside down, so that an inverted "4?" mark appeared in ghostly white 50 times on the sheet in the wrong place...
...lovely girl who has always attracted numerous boys, but her wardrobe would not fill a hatbox. She wears almost no jewelry, but she has one material bauble. When a Jaguar auto salesman looked down his nose at the scruffily dressed customer as she peered at a bucket-seat XKE sports model, she sat down, wrote a giant check, and bought it on the spot. Wildly, she dashes across the desert in her Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses...
...Hiss, who slipped State Department secrets to a Communist spy ring in the 1930s and was later sent to prison for perjury. Nixon, as a tiery young Congressman on the House Un-American Activities Committee, helped bring the Hiss case to light. On the air, Hiss, now a printing salesman, all but accused Nixon of framing him: "He was less interested in developing the facts objectively than in seeking ways of making a preconceived plan appear plausible. I regard his actions as motivated by ambition, by personal self-serving...
...liquor salesman could only have sighed with regret in 1954. Although a thousand relatively docile students filled the Yard and part of Massachusetts Avenue during a rally on the Friday night before the game, alcoholic beverages were...