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...attorney, state senator and seven legislative seats, Bill Robins, 52, chairman of the Republican candidates committee for Oklahoma County, had no candidates. That was hardly unusual. Heavily outnumbered (by an estimated 5 to 1) Oklahoma City Republicans usually save what strength they can muster for statewide elections. But Investment Salesman Robins put his faith in the power of advertising, paid for the Oklahoman ad ($50.40) out of his own pocket. At week's end, he was elated. Seven "patriots" had called, were weighing an uphill race for party and community...
...only dissonant notes in the performance were the wildly off-key plugs delivered for the Florists' Telegraph Delivery Association, which sponsored the show. Even nimble TV veterans found it difficult to switch from a mourning Donna Anna ("The shade of my father/For vengeance it cries!") to a bedridden salesman receiving a bouquet of flowrers with a happy cry: "Why, it's from the boys in the branch office...
Died. Sidney S. Lenz, 86, who started work at 16 as a $2-a-week paper salesman, retired at 31 as the millionaire owner of a paper company, devoted much of his life thereafter to playing and experting at bridge; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In 1931, after he and Partner Oswald Jacoby were challenged ($10,000 to $1,000) by Upstart Bridge Expert Ely Culbertson and Wife Josephine to a 150-rubber match billed as "The Bridge Battle of the Century," Lenz fell into eclipse when the Culbertsons, promoting their new honor-trick system, talked and slammed their...
...waged much of the battle against American was Bowman Gray's father, a hardworking, up-from-the-ranks salesman who became Reynolds' sales manager, moved on in 1924 to president...
...University of North Carolina and now national security adviser to President Eisenhower.) At Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, Bo Gray persuaded fellow students to smoke Prince Albert after he discovered that cigarettes were forbidden. After graduating from Chapel Hill ('29) he went to work as a Reynolds salesman...