Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sales Pitch. Even where the product was not readily identifiable, salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back...
...Ochsner's disillusionment with fluoridation of public water supplies adds one more illustrious name to the growing list of scholars in the health professions who see through the pretensions of this pseudoscientific gimmick and its salesmen. How you must have hated to admit it ! ... Phooey on opinionated, supercilious TIME...
Such good will paid off. Into Hospitality House, to mix with Westinghouse's Vice President for Atomics Charles Weaver and its top-drawer salesmen, swarmed representatives of 26 nations. Every prospect who looked good or even hopeful got a handsomely bound prospectus with pictures and detailed sketches of the reactor. When the time came to close the first sale, Scientist Weaver and Salesman de Cubas met with Fiat President Vittorio Valletta and signed...
...year wonder in an ailing industry, is cut right to the pattern of rangy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 lbs.) 47-year-old Abe Feinberg's whole career. A hosiery salesman's son who went to work at 14 "cleaning 17 cuspidors a day for 17 underwear salesmen," Feinberg rose to be a cuspidor user in two years, quit his $75-a-week salesman's job when it interfered with his evening studies at Fordham Law School. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in law (which he never practiced), was helping "put together...
...smart hotel; he gets waiters to seat him where he wishes; he sweeps a startled Rose into bed with her clothes on after a three-year kissless courtship. And in one day on the road, he sells enough insurance to become one of Arcadia's top-ranking salesmen and nearly violate the Centralist rule of moderation...