Word: salesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salesman is a good deal more ambitious and successful. Producers Al and David Maysles spent almost two months following a group of Bible salesmen on their rounds (which they refer to as "your Father's business"), from Boston to Opalocka, Fla. The result is a nightmare version of, in Al Maysles' phrase, "a part of the American dream." Salesman's central figure is a middle-aged Massachusetts Irishman named Paul Brennan, whom his cronies nickname "The Badger." He holds one of the MidAmerican Bible Co.'s better than average sales records, but as the film progresses...
...background for civilian careers. Even so, a survey conducted by The Gallagher Presidents' Report shows that most of the 231 former priests interviewed had found work within two months. Half of the priests, reported the weekly newsletter for executives, went to work in the business world. They became salesmen, management trainees, office managers, systems engineers, journalists, admen, economists and personnel directors. Most of the others moved into education or social service. Their salaries average $9,200 a year...
Today, most of Stone's 3,500 salesmen memorize his sales pitch down to the last pause and wisecrack. Standard joke: "Why, we even pay off if your heart is broken." Following a technique that Stone developed, the salesmen walk through an office building from top to bottom, knocking on doors trying to sell everyone inside. The salesmen call this method "cold canvassing"; Stone predictably terms it "gold canvassing...
Cold Shoulder. Atlanta-born Parks grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father was a wine steward, his mother a some time domestic servant. After working his way through Ohio State ('39); he joined the Pabst Brewing Co. and later headed a small group of Negro salesmen who cultivated ghetto markets for the firm. After settling in Baltimore in 1944, he started the sausage firm in 1951. Just what he did during the years between is a bit vague...
...risen to rank among the ten biggest U.S. companies, with 1968 sales of $6.9 billion and profits of $871 million. With a reputation for excellent technology, marketing and servicing, it dominates the computer business at home and abroad. The company's smoothly aggressive and generously rewarded salesmen have captured about 74% of the U.S. market. Investors value IBM's prospects so highly that its 112.7 million shares are worth a total of $34.6 billion -far more than G.M., A.T. & T. or any other U.S. company...