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...also suggest he was helped along by his first marriage-to Karla Hennings, the daughter of the late Senator Thomas C. Hennings of Missouri. She bore his son John IV, now 5, but the marriage ended in divorce three years ago. Last fall Dean married Maureen, a former insurance saleswoman from Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How John Dean Came Center Stage | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...organic foods or drink Swedish mineral water. They could test their strength on some antique carnival machines or stare at the leotard-clad figure of Lizalotta Valesca, 70. In 1930 she was Miss Finland; today she is perhaps the world's best-preserved great-grandmother and a persuasive saleswoman for a line of health and beauty aids. Visitors could also slip into an adjoining auditorium and hear lectures on such subjects as biofeedback (TIME, Oct. 16) and the prevention of illness and achievement of a satisfactory sex life through proper eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health and Hucksterism | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

...importantly, though are all those characteristics the New Wave has always held most dear--a quick-tempered volatility, an instinctual anti-authoritarianism a face infinitely enigmatic, and a sure talent for the outrageous. Toward the end of the film Rosemonde decides to leave, in grand style, her job as saleswoman in a shoe store. She begins indiscriminately fondling the legs of say prospective customer, much to the discomfort of her once attentive employer and his unamused mother...

Author: By Michael Levenson, | Title: New Wave, Old Wave | 10/4/1972 | See Source »

...police searched for the remaining members of the bomb-slinging Bonnie und Clyde gang (TIME, June 12). So far, six have been caught. One was Gudrun Ensslin, 31, a minister's daughter and former student of German literature, who was captured in a Hamburg boutique after a saleswoman noticed a pistol stuffed into her jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: Europe's Cold Civil War | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...Professional ambitions and the desire to perform social services are commendable, but I cannot accept the idea that working outside the home is necessarily better than working in it. I worked seven years before I was married (I was the first industrial diamond-powder saleswoman in the U.S.) and dreamed of a time when I would have enough leisure to pursue a wide range of interests: academic subjects, painting, photography, poetry writing, reading, tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1972 | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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