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Montreal Bureau Chief Jon Anderson called the number, found it belonged to a mutual-funds salesman who had found TIME'S cover story that week on the mutual funds (and Dwight Robinson of the Massachusetts Investors Trust) the quickest and best explanation of what mutual funds are about. At the Montreal Men's Press Club, Anderson was told that the going price went as high as $15 for this particular issue. Playing a hunch, Anderson checked the TIME file collected in his own office. Sure enough, June 1, 1959 was missing...
...Chambers. Still protesting his innocence, Hiss was freed in November 1954, landed a job at $100 a week with a Manhattan manufacturer of women's combs, and worked his way up to a salary of $20,000 a year. Last year he took a new job as a salesman for stationery and printing firms...
...place that is "humming with imbeciles," Arthur Kopit is indeed a writer, and the appeal of his work is in the cutting edge of authenticity with which he hacks his way through phony jungles. Personally soft-spoken and completely unaffected, Kopit is the son of a jewelry salesman, grew up in Lawrence, Long Island. At Harvard on a scholarship, he majored in engineering and learned his playwrighting in the Dunster House Drama Workshop. If his material is bizarre, it is designed with the practical precision of a simple electrical circuit. He may or may not become a first-rate playwright...
...Attention must be paid to such a person," says Mrs. Willy Loman of her husband in Death of a Salesman. It is a poignant plaint, and she repeats it as if she did not quite believe it. The fact is, no one is really convinced that the tormented figures of modern drama have the stature of tragic heroes. The measure of that disbelief is to imagine Jocasta asking an audience to pay attention to Oedipus, or Cordelia to Lear. Try not paying attention to them...
...Rabbi Kaplan was so miserable with the hidebound orthodoxy of his first congregation (Manhattan's Kehilath Jeshurun) that he asked the president of the Jewish Theological Seminary to recommend him to a life insurance company as salesman. He was persuaded to stick it out. and instead of insurance, he has been selling his own conception of Judaism ever since. It has been a long pull; Mordecai Kaplan was feted by 600 well-wishers last week on his 80th birthday. And his conception of Judaism has grown into a thriving movement: Reconstructionism...