Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
The oldtime religion hits a fever pitch in the summer, when thousands of Stanley dealers journey to Westfield for "jamborees." There they are worked into such a state by inspirational company songs and pep talks that women often burst into tears.
Restless young "J." Laughlin left Harvard after his freshman year, took off for a Wanderjahr in Europe. There U.S. expatriate writers filled his ears with a doleful cry: Why was there no publisher in America willing to take a chance on avant-garde writing? Laughlin went back to Harvard in...
Cold Feet. Near Potsdam, Germany, emerging from the icy water of Grunewald Lake, a shivering couple explained to police what they were doing there at this time of year: they had planned to commit suicide, but the water was too cold.
Norman Shepard had his men using a new defensive strategy there was no switching men on the outside, only when an Indian drove through the keyhole for a layup. This stopped the visitors until they got hot in the second half.