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Died. Howard Black, retired executive vice president of Time Inc., who signed on in 1924 as one of TIME'S earliest advertising salesmen, from 1937 to 1941 presided over the fantastic growth of infant LIFE'S ad lineage revenues, then as longtime (1949-62) executive vice president was involved with all Time Inc. publishing operations, most notably the birth of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED in 1953; after a long illness; in Greenwich, Conn...
...door-to-door salesmen give hard sell to homeowner. Homeowner objects, nonchalantly removes one salesman's watch, admires it, and then smashes it on doorstep. Salesman mulls, then casually breaks off section of door frame. Homeowner reflects, then rips off salesman's shirt. Other salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
...scene is from a 1929 two-reeler starring, as the salesmen, those two heroes of the harebrained, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. To the uninitiated, the mayhem may seem just a grand exercise in slam-bang slapstick. But to a fan club called the Sons of the Desert, it is a classic example of the high comedic art of "reciprocal destruction" and worthy of scrutiny down to the last double take. Described as "an organization with scholarly overtones and heavily social undertones," the Sons of the Desert (named after an L. & H. film) was founded two years...
...University of Chicago Press since 1954, made it into the most efficient academic press in the U.S. He has led the drive to provide author-professors with better editing as well as better contracts and royalties. Shugg has also installed computer billing and full-time coast-to-coast salesmen, written eyecatching ads that are more seductive than sedate. Although most university presses fail to turn a profit, the Chicago Press has made $500,000 in the past ten years...
...position of prominence only made material for cartoonists' gibes. Everyone was quick to recall how France had continued to supply arms to Israel right up to the moment that fighting began-and perhaps well after. And even as President De Gaulle decried world tensions, his high-pressure salesmen were doing their best to contribute to another arms buildup-this one in Latin America of all places-by trying to sell their newest antitank missiles and supersonic jets to Peru...