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...held Chrysler's No. 3 slot-vice president in charge of domestic sales and production-ever since Townsend lured him from a similar position at American Motors in 1962. He will bring to his new job a strong suit in marketing experience and a close rapport with auto salesmen...
...will distribute 100,000 free copies a day while it tries to sign up as many subscribers as possible. At month's end, it will start distributing 100,000 copies to another group of potential purchasers. Then it will follow up with a big promotion campaign, including salesmen decked out in green blazers adorned with the paper's emblem-a blazing...
Christmas Jingle. Elsewhere, creativity is much more subdued and businesslike. Last week Stone's 800 salesmen were calling on the drugstores, supermarkets and discount stores in which American places most of its cards to make certain that they are ready for the biggest single rush of the year. Christmas accounts for half of all greeting-card sales (followed by Valentine's Day, Easter and Mother's Day); well-wishers this year will purchase 7 billion cards altogether. Most buyers like their art and inspiration messages solemn and simple...
...mediocre intellect, trade-school mentality, limited interests and incomplete personality." He has trouble diagnosing a boil. Scalpel in hand, he needlessly whacks off the nearest tonsil; absentmindedly, he seals sponges, forceps, suture needles, thread, scissors and drainage tubes into surgical wounds. He takes pharmaceutical lessons from drug salesmen and writes illegible prescriptions that kill his patients. He soaks the sick, cheats on his income tax and, on his inviolable Wednesday afternoons at the country club, devotedly chases par while his patients perish unattended in hospitals, as often as not from falling...
...record. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose cooperation had guaranteed passage of several controversial Administration proposals, expressed the opposition's reaction in characteristically flamboyant prose last week: "The Administration goes its higgledy-piggledy way; its high priests are no longer the flower of American culture but skilled political salesmen who pursue domestic social programs with the popeyed ardor of a Harpo Marx chasing blondes...