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They came in at night bawling obscenities and shooting at everything that moved; they killed three children and wounded the sharecropper, before they vanished into the brush...
...pictures were mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
Dealer Hayden demonstrated a Stanley bath brush, a man's curved hair brush ("if your husband can use it, it proves he hasn't a flat head") and Stanley combs which "never go to the dentist, because their teeth stay in." In 45 minutes, she showed 50 different items, took in $43 in orders-more than enough to earn a set of table knives for her hostess, and a commission of about $14 for herself...
...Hosiery. All over the U.S. last week, parties like Mrs. Wright's were being held under the direction of some 16,000 Stanley dealers. By such direct, folksy methods, big, ruddy-faced F. Stanley Beveridge, 70, has made his Stanley Home Products, Inc. bigger even than famed Fuller Brush Co., where he learned the tricks of the trade. Last year his sales hit a peak of $35 million (v. Fuller's $32,250,000); its net: $2,900,000. Last week, as he stepped up operations in the Canadian market and planned to use national advertising...
Through this sprawling empire of brushes, mops and cleaners, the spirit of Stanley Beveridge, who believes that "the way to begin is to begin," gleams like a highly polished skillet. Beveridge began by selling stereopticon viewers, joined Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded...