Word: salesmanship
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...Once when he saw the late great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, leave the old Southern Hotel, Sammy pretended not to know him and dogged him all the way to the office, insisting that he buy a Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer was so impressed by his salesmanship that he put him on a $2.50-a-week retainer as a newsboy...
...Maur and Viscount de Montauriant, fought with the French underground in his teens, and in 1947 came to the U.S., where his dazzling piano-playing soon won him scholarship grants at the University of Portland and the Eastman School of Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester, N.Y. (Major General Richard Lindsay commanding...
...financial world, the business board works to make the CRIMSON's budget balance, white practicing the arts of salesmanship and advertising layout...
Behind the scenes, the financially inclined handle the largest undergraduate financial operation, keeping the six figure operation in the black, while practicing both salesmanship and advertising technique...
...drives his players. He had hardly hit Texas early last year, a refugee from the high-pressure Kentucky basketball barony of Adolph Rupp, when he put on a recruiting drive that started other Southwest Conference coaches screaming: "Foul!" Conference officials promptly blew the whistle on Bear's overenthusiastic salesmanship and set the Aggies back with a stiff penalty: two years' probation and orders not to appear in any bowl games...