Word: supersalesmen
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...sales paraphernalia. A huge football player charged at us novice salesmen from a sales poster. A sign reading "Carnaby Street," Union Jacks, and a map of London conspired to spur salesmen to that 110 per cent effort-and a trip to London for the nation's leading salesmen. Lucky supersalesmen who had earned trips in previous years smiled fixedly from the walls...
...yearly travel. Neither does the Internal Revenue Service, which accepts it as a business expense. Early mornings are devoted to sales pep talks at "The Gibson College for Profit"; the college awards diplomas. Gibson President Charles J. Gibson Jr., 46, holds awards luncheons, hands out Hollywood-type Oscars to supersalesmen. "They go over particularly well with the womenfolk," he says. Each planeload of 160 husbands and wives is briefed on next year's line of refrigerators on the way over. On the way back across the Pacific, the travelers take a "quiz in the clouds" about what they have...
Faced with that prospect, U.S. officials dealing with Latin American affairs may try to sell the Cabinet and Congress on some kind of price-support program. If so, they will have to be supersalesmen. Congress is well aware that among U.S. consumers the memory of the 1953-54 coffee-price gouge still rankles...
...since decided not to depend entirely on mechanical exhibits. Instead, the company took over the entire first floor of the fashionable Genevoise restaurant for the duration of the conference, so industrialists, scientists and newsmen could talk things over and enjoy the free drinks, snacks and cigars. One night the supersalesmen chartered a Lake Geneva steamer, took aboard 400 prospective clients and wives, wined, dined and danced them until dawn...
Meighan is not at all frightened by the thought that a whole new crop of folksy announcers, all dropping their final g's, might be as unbearable as the current school of insincere supersalesmen. "On the contrary," Meighan says briskly. "That would be the millennium...