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...sleeping cat ($125). Besides beauty and style, what these and 112 other art objects being offered in a slickly handsome new catalogue have in common is that all are copies of works in the huge private collection of one of the nation's newest mail-order salesmen: Nelson Rockefeller...
...commute to town to work as factory hands or clerks; others are mainly fertilizer salesmen, rural storekeepers or the like who raise, say, a few hogs as a sideline. "Farmers" in the $20,000-and-under class get 80% of their income from off-the-land jobs...
...assembled Action Lines claimed a high solution rate-typically, three out of four problems they tackle-and a few recounted triumphs that would help win a district attorney reelection. Herb Brown says he has run unscrupulous hearing-aid salesmen out of New Jersey, and aided in the conviction of a fraudulent home repairer on 17 counts of embezzlement. Sharon Tucker of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune's Hotline column helped a woman settle out of court with an auto mechanic who had charged $384 for a transmission job advertised...
...every spring all the fans in Boston stand in lines that stretch sometimes for blocks. They needle through thickening mobs of vendors, salesmen, religious prophets, politicians and pushers which gather around Fenway Park like bees to a hive...
...writers. Just as in other industries, centralization of newspaper ownership has led employees to heightened awareness of their own vulnerability. But so far, these unions have failed to realize their promise. The news reporters and editorial writers belong to a mammoth newspaper guild that covers linotype operators, want-ad salesmen, shop foremen, etc. Consequently, the union deals strictly with what its various members have in common such as health benefits, vacation time automatic pay increases, and other work issues that have traditionally concerned labor unions...