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Said Wausau Salesman Robert Melang: "The main thing my wife fears is loneliness, especially at night after she's put the children to bed. Except for her and the kids, I don't mind going. We've had good training-we've got a real good outfit." Says Antigo's Captain Norman Martell, the father of eight: "Sure, it's rough on all of us, but that's what we're here for. I've been building myself up a little insurance business for the last six years...
...salesman, Lance was a slow starter. "I used to be ashamed," recalls his mother. "All my girl friends had children who could sing nursery rhymes. Lance didn't even say anything." Little did Mamma know. Just after he turned two, Lance began identifying cars by make. His mother thought he did it by recognizing shapes; it turned out that Lance was reading the name plates. In kindergarten, he unnerved the teacher by reading aloud to other tots during rest period. He mastered the multiplication table in three days, zipped through all six elementary grades in one year...
...flashed his auto headlights to warn of the approach of the President's speeding caravan. Police guessed that the charge had been buried for days, failed to go off because rain had dampened its mechanism. Implicated in the plot was a ragtag crowd that included an insurance salesman from Sèvres, a buxom, blonde vaudeville magician who lived with a houseful of cats, dogs and parrots, a 45-year-old woman who sold string, and a thin, nervous onetime radio announcer, Martial de Villemandy, who was quickly arrested at a village bistro not far from the scene...
...dawn raid on a Paris apartment, turned out to be Nicolai Gontscharow, 31, a handsome, suave, international cat man known on the Riviera as "le beau Sacha." Caught trying to sneak out a window (with a suitcase containing $10,000 in cash), Sacha claimed he was a simple jewelry salesman...
Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt, the man hired to clean up the political mess that disgraced Chicago schools under the late Mayor Ed Kelly. Willis clinched Hunt's reforms and followed with his own equally decisive ones...