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James Dalton Trumbo was born in Montrose, Colo.; his father was variously a shoe salesman and a beekeeper, his mother a Christian Scientist who did constant battle with the school board to make sure that no one vaccinated her son. "I was surrounded with the atmosphere of dissent," he remembers, with the air of a man who has used the story before to point his moral. "My Southern grandmother, burning with hateful memories of the Yankee invasion, dissented from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan...
Died. Negley Farson, 70, bestselling author (The Way of a Transgressor) and onetime foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News. Grandson of a Union Army general, hard-living Negley Farson drew the source material for his hard-bitten books from careers as an oil salesman in the U.S., engineer in England, arms salesman in Czarist Russia, aviator in Egypt; of a heart attack; in Georgeham, North Devon, England...
Dominating the proceedings from offstage was Racketeer Frankie Carbo, 56, known to business colleagues as "The Uncle," "The Southern Salesman," "Mr. Grey" and (in his younger, hungrier days) "Jimmy the Wop." Once convicted of manslaughter and five times arrested on suspicion of murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
...entertainment which needn't be discussed here). About two years ago, however, incoming clients began expressing a desire to visit "a coffee house in the village." The role of the coffeehouse is now being pre-empted, for the off-Broadway theater, has become mildly entertaining, fulfills a visiting salesman's notion of "the Village" and the scene of nothing terribly serious...
Cutting the Knot. A year ago, after serving six months as Deputy Defense Secretary, Gates succeeded Soap Salesman Neil H. McElroy in the top defense post. During his one year, Gates achieved more service unification-notably in research, purchasing and communications-than his last two predecessors achieved in seven years. Gates also cut through a knotty administrative problem that had baffled his predecessors: coordination between the Secretary and the Joint Chiefs of Staff...