Word: saleswoman
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Along the dreary road of social awareness are comfort stations offering comic relief to the weary. At WHER, an all-girl radio station in Memphis, there is an advertising saleswoman whose ashtray bears the well-worn lettering: "Long Time No He." In Welch, W. Va., there is a motel operator whose sideline is painting Fundamentalist road signs; his masterpiece reads...
Leavitt and Pierce and the Coop reported a slight drop in cigarette sales and a considerable rise in pipe and tobacco purchases. But the saleswoman in the Coop was skeptical. "Cigarettes will keep going down for a white--then sales will shoot right back up," she said. "That's what happened on the New York Stock Exchange...
...ignores wrongly addressed prayers, and He has kept to the old system, under which women bear babies and men pretty much run everything. No woman has yet been elected President, and, as Critic Diana Trilling once remarked, it is hard even to imagine "a play called Death of a Saleswoman." Women are still at sea, and their rule is men and children first...
...substitutes "glamorous" for "sexy"; the Commercial Appeal warns its reporters to "write nothing that will spoil the appetite." The Chicago Tribune permits "s.o.b.," but defines it as a "Trumanism." The Los Angeles Times, concluding that all women aren't ladies, ungallantly applies its conclusion: "A salesgirl or a saleswoman is not a saleslady, and a washerwoman is not a washlady, so a scrubwoman cannot be a scrublady." In Detroit, the News withholds the title of "Mr." from all males who are not Protestant clergy, dead, or the President of the United States. "However," cautions the News, "other cases...
...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Janet Blair and John Raitt have the looks and the voices to sound off as fine summer substitutes for Chevy Saleswoman Dinah Shore-especially since the show is in color...