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Ralph was the last to go and the most vehement in his denials. He actually went to Texas to submit to questioning by Wilson. But while he kept insisting that he never received any clothing, he did admit, under hard questioning, that a salesman had come up with a chalk and tape measure and worked on a suit that Ralph was trying on. Since Ralph persisted in denying that he got any clothing, his case remained hanging until last week, when further investigation showed that he had used an Estes credit card to pay for personal telephone calls. Freeman fired...
...price of a ticket home. He gave up composition for painting, painting for newspaper work in New Jersey, finally drifted to WNYC, where "they've regretted it ever since. They can't stand me, but they can't fire me. I'm considered the best salesman of classical music on radio. My chicanery is humanitarian...
...BIBLE SALESMAN (257 pp.)-Alma Stone-Doubleday...
There is some truth to be seen from each vantage, even though the current prejudice is to see only what is visible under the magnifying lens. The Bible Salesman hangs uneasily between success and failure because its author, choosing the middle distance, is never quite able to do what a dealer in the picaresque must: make her readers forget momentarily that there are important truths that can be seen only from the other perspectives...
...used-car salesman, Actor Stephens plays to panting perfection the sort of sly young fox who figures that if he chases the chickens hard enough he may get a goose. In the homosexual, Actor Melvin finds valor, humor, ethos, pathos, and a touching reminder that men who become women sometimes become good women. With the mother, Actress Bryan accomplishes a masterpiece of caricature. Voice like a firebell, hair like fried sash-cord, face notched with conquests like a sheriff's six gun, she is the wiggling, giggling, jiggling image of the beery...