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...next Pac-man, but the hottest thing going right now in certain rural areas of 21 states is a coin-operated vending machine that dispenses live bait to fishermen, and the force behind it is a supersalesman from Des Moines who found God in a federal penitentiary. The machine is called Vend-A-Bait, and, as one Texas distributor put it, "It's one great moneymakin' sucker." So, for that matter, is Vend-A-Bait Mogul Glenn McClintic; he drives a car longer than most people's memory...
...begins with the 16th century geological musings of Martin Luther: "Longer ago than 6,000 years the world did not exist." It hurtles downhill from there toward outright insolence. Did Abraham Lincoln really say in 1859, "Negro equality! Fudge! How long . . . shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to quip, so low a piece of demagogism as this"? Did the U.S. Labor Department truly announce that 1930 would be "a splendid employment year...
Casablancas also realized that the young Venuses who vend every imaginable product in print and on TV could command far higher rates than they were getting. The hourly charge for a top model has trebled (up to $300 an hour) in the past three years. Instead of setting fixed fees for a model's time, Casablancas started negotiating each booking with a canny perception of the client's particular needs and the girl's availability. The whole industry has had to follow suit, with the result that many models' incomes and clients' budgets have skyrocketed...
Some prefer to vend. Hock hats and sell souvenirs at an amusement park (and see if your tutorial helps you unload $30 stuffed animals to saturated fairgoers). Work for the Fuller Brush people. Earn commissions, seek out customers, play the stock market, start a lemonade and orange juice stand, diversify, accumulate, acquire...
While Elvis Presley lived, there was not a single store hawking Presleyana in Memphis. But since his death last month, the reclusive rock pioneer has been merchandised in a manner that would arouse the envy of the smoothest huckster. Outside his Graceland mansion, peddlers vend memorabilia, including dollar bills with Presley's portrait in place of George Washington's (price: $8). A package of 19 original Presley records is being offered for $9,500. A Columbus, Ga., used-car dealer is restoring the singer's first Cadiliac to take on a national tour. A Delaware outfit called...