Word: salesman
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...former teacher, educated him for a while at home, but the boy's growing fascination with chemistry soon led him into a rigorous course of independent study. To pay for the materials needed for his experiments, Edison at age 12 got a job as a candy and newspaper salesman on the Grand Trunk Railway. By the time he was 16, he had learned telegraphy and began working as an operator at various points in the Middle West; in 1868 he joined the Boston office of Western Union. It was here that he read Michael Faraday's Experimental Researches in Electricity...
...faults, Eugene O'Neill's lumbering meditation on the human condition still puts to shame most of what passes for playwriting today. And Howard Davies' beautiful production from London brought it alive for a new generation. Kevin Spacey put fresh sparks into the role of Hickey, the salesman who sets out to rid the denizens of Harry Hope's bar of their illusions. But nearly every cast member contributed to an electrifying evening...
...ARTHUR MILLER At 84, he's hot again. First came an acclaimed new production of Death of a Salesman, with Brian Dennehy putting his bearlike grip on Willy Loman, then a powerful new opera based on A View from the Bridge and an impressive Broadway revival of The Price, Miller's underrated 1968 drama about two brothers coming to terms after their father's death...
...could have been, in the hands of a more skillful writer. Evanzz, an online editor for the Washington Post, has a nose for scoops. He establishes beyond all doubt that Wallace D. Fard, the mysterious silk salesman who convinced Muhammad that he was the embodiment of Allah on earth, was actually a New Zealand-born petty criminal. Evanzz adds fresh--if overblown--detail to the Muslims' pre-World War II entanglement with Satahota Takahashi, a shadowy radical who persuaded Muhammad that with Allah's blessing "the Japanese will slaughter the white man." Evanzz even provides snatches of FBI tapes...
...Tajiri accumulated insects, especially beetles. Even now, he tells TIME, he is proud of the way he captured beetles, looking under rocks to find them sleeping. "Nobody else thought to do that," he says. The son of a Nissan salesman and a housewife, Tajiri was raised in a Tokyo suburb in the late '60s, before the city crept outward. "As a child, I wanted to be an entomologist. Insects fascinated me. Every new insect was a wonderful mystery. And as I searched for more, I would find more. If I put my hand in a river, I would...