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...brother's earliest recollections is of Gene as a five-year-old, charging into a horse-drawn cab so hard that he went right on through and out the other side. But Gene Blake as a 54-year-old charges with his head up. He is a savvy salesman-executive who remembers first names, keeps up his contacts, runs two offices of his church (in Philadelphia and Manhattan) and gets around...
Binx Boiling is just short of 30, of good family, a veteran of the Korean War and a securities salesman with a nice knack for calling the turns in his trade. His surface trouble is that life seems like a chronic sickness, his fear is of defeat by "everydayness." Life around him seems fat. genial, kindly-and stupid. "Men are dead, dead, dead; and the malaise has settled like a fallout and what people really fear is not that the bomb will fall but that the bomb will not fall . . ." Comfortable, well-heeled Binx habitually sleeps with his secretaries...
...technical know-how and money-saving suggestions. Says a competitor: "You just get surrounded by their tremendous manpower." A.H.S. bombards its clients with a monthly mailing of 25,000 "technical advisories," and whenever a customer has an anniversary or is promoted, he gets a personal note from his A.H.S. salesman or even from McGaw himself. A stickler for the personal letter approach, McGaw issues strict instructions to his staff on epistolary style; e.g., never sound professional, never start with...
...Berkeley element makers-Almon Larsh, 32, and Robert Latimer, 26-are native Californians. Larsh, the son of a traveling salesman from Oklahoma, graduated from Caltech as an electrical engineer. Chemist Latimer, a Berkeley graduate, was born with a silver test tube in his mouth: his father, Wendell Latimer, was a famous chemist and head of Berke ley's department of chemistry. But the distinction brought young Robert no favors at the Radiation Lab. His own scientific skill earned him the right to handle the intricate machinery with which new elements are manufactured...
...Austria, in Linz, the postcard prettiness of which was darkened during the '20s by the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I. Adolf's father lost his job as a factory manager; young Adolf had to quit college to get a job as a salesman. Like other middle-class youths with a grievance, Adolf Eichmann turned fascist. In Germany on business trips, he thrilled to the sight of brown-shirted Storm Troopers marching beneath swastika banners, and listened avidly to the Munich ravings of another product of Linz, Adolf Hitler. In 1932, when...