Word: supersalesman
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...Buchwald and Julie Andrews had to share equal billing at the American Booksellers Association convention lunch in Washington, D.C., with 9-Lives' finicky supersalesman Morris. The subject of an intimate biography by Chicago Journalist Mary Daniels, the big orange tiger basked in the warmth of the spotlights and the attention of some 1,000 booksellers who were listening to a tape of Morris. The details of his life are stark. Five years ago, Morris was rescued from imminent execution at the Hinsdale, Ill., Humane Society by Professional Animal Handler Bob Martwick. Morris earned Martwick's kennel over...
Historians of the Nixon Administration may well conclude that the President's economic shock programs of 1971 first took shape during a White House briefing on foreign trade last April. It was conducted by a scholarly looking supersalesman, Peter George Peterson, who three months earlier had resigned as chairman of Chicago's Bell & Howell to become Nixon's adviser on foreign economic affairs. Using slides and flip charts, Peterson forcefully drove home to the President for the first time the seriousness of the nation's slipping trade position and one of its causes, the decline...
...feel within myself that I cannot wear the uniform with the same pride I had before." He is not sure what he will do next, but he has been offered a job by Florida Cosmetics Millionaire Glenn Turner, who also contributed $25,000 to his defense fund. Turner, a supersalesman who operates 58 assorted companies from Orlando, Fla., engaged Bailey to help him out of legal difficulties in several states; Bailey, in turn, asked Turner for help with his less affluent client. Turner, who likes to hand out $100 bills to indigent passersby, was only too happy to comply. Turner...
...members, only four-all Republicans-spoke in favor of it. One of them, New York's Barber Conable, was so persuasive that Connally suggested that he should be the chief spokesman for the bill. No one disagreed. Connally was not in this instance playing his usual role of supersalesman. Mills was overheard saying: "His heart was not in it." When Tennessee Democrat Richard Fulton ended his questioning, he told the Secretary: "I do not want to be premature, but I do tender you my condolences...
...franchising chains took a clobbering, including International Industries' House of Pancakes, Joe Namath's Broadway Joe's and Minnie Pearl's Chicken System. So did computer software firms and rickety conglomerates. Flamboyant, fast-talking entrepreneurs toppled like dominoes. Among them was Bernard Cornfeld, the expatriate supersalesman who had built Investors Overseas Services into the largest mutual fund organization selling shares to foreigners. Denver's John King, whose King Resources sold interests in oil wells and other holes in the ground, tried to come to Cornfeld's rescue with a loan. Instead, King himself...