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Among other tactics, he used such Western personalities as Sammy Davis Jr. to tout Suntory on TV. Some Suntory salesmen were attacked by knife-wielding chefs outraged at the attempt to Westernize the traditional Japanese cuisine by urging diners to drink Scotch instead of sake. But today millions of homes and almost every bar and restaurant stock at least some of Suntory's 15 brands. In price and quality, they range widely. The pedestrian Torys costs $2.25 a fifth, while Suntory's best, called The Whiskey, goes for a heady $250. Most popular brand: Suntory Old, which retails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saga off Rising Suntory | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...Though that is about four times the average Korean's annual income, snake devotees believe the albino is a bargain: the typical 1½ ft.-long paik-sa, when tastily boiled and simmered, is claimed by Korea's version of snake-oil salesmen to add years to the life of the intrepid consumer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Seoul Food | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

What statistics does LaGrone have available for children of grocery clerks or of traveling salesmen? The military makes such a convenient, homogeneous target for studies such as his. We are just as normal and abnormal as any other segment of the population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...important is the convention business that 117 U.S. cities employ professional staffs to attract meetings. New York City's Convention and Visitors Bureau has five traveling salesmen trying to persuade trade and professional groups to gather in the Big Apple. The Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau also has a field force of five convention hunters out plugging the Big Peach. Miami employs four to tout the Big Orange, while Waikiki sent a representative to Austria to bag the Lions International for the Big Pineapple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Eugene Scanlon, manager of New York City's Waldorf Astoria, was asked by Electrolux to find a live cougar that would roam the ballroom and represent a real "go-getter" to the assembled salesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Convening of America | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

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