He was a salesman for something or other and must have been transferred.

Stickney is a salesman for Plee-Zing, Inc., 2544 Green Bay Rd., Evanston, a food brokerage and grocery chain firm, of which his father, William L. Jr., is president.

He built further wealth as a bond salesman raising money for American enterprise in Europe.

In collaboration with Shen Lin he devised well-known heuristics for two NP-complete optimization problems: graph partitioning and the travelling salesman problem.

He then found temporary work until 1942 — first as a salesman for Marshall Fields, and then as a singing waiter in various restaurants.

The fourth founder, Herbert Richman, had been a salesman for Fairchild Semiconductor and knew the others through his contacts with Digital Equipment.

* Samples Sales: Used car salesman role for Junior Samples, with Misty Rowe as his later assistant, in his guise as a magician called Junior the Great, would try to palm off a major ' clunker ' and then hold up a sign to remind viewers that his phone number was " BR-549 ".

An example of this would be Franz Kafka's story The Metamorphosis, in which the salesman Gregor Samsa's plans for supporting his family and rising up in rank by hard work and determination are suddenly thrown topsy-turvy by his sudden and inexplicable transformation into a man-sized insect.

They ask Paris, a traveling salesman, to judge the cakes they have made for the church social.

That sketch was based on an actual incident between Palin and a car salesman .< ref > In Monty Python Live at Aspen, Palin said that this salesman " had an excuse for everything.

Sometime prior to September 1970, Reagan was working as a salesman for the clothing company Hart, Schaffner & Marx.

His father supported him for six months, then offered to help him find a job as a salesman.

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, as the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins ( 1894 – 1972 ) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett ( 1888 – 1987 ).

Reportedly, he was kicked off the set of The Liberace Show for not wearing a tie, and he refused to cue a car salesman during a live feed because of his attitude towards stagehands.

However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

Gilliam was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the son of Beatrice ( née Vance ) and James Hall Gilliam, who was a traveling salesman for Folgers before becoming a carpenter.

Shen Lin and Brian Kernighan first published their method in 1972, and it was the most reliable heuristic for solving travelling salesman problems for nearly two decades.

One year later he joined a traveling salesman, George Cornwell, peddling organs and pianos around the farms for William Bronson's local hardware store, Watson's first sales job.

* December 7 – George Russell Weller, retired salesman known for the Santa Monica Farmer's Market incident ( d. 2010 )

Infomercial salesman Billy Mays signed a deal in June 2009 to shoot infomercial-style commercials for the chain, with filming to begin in August.

To be precise, for every constant r there is an instance of the traveling salesman problem such that the length of the tour length computed by the nearest neighbour algorithm is greater than r times the length of the optimal tour.

After he left the Navy in 1957, Perot became a salesman for International Business Machines.

( Dulian would later become sales manager for the Tucker Car Corp .) Dulian was transferred a couple of years later ; Tucker stayed in Memphis and was a salesman for Ivor Schmidt ( Stutz ) and John Fischer ( Chrysler ), where he became general sales manager.

Ehrlich was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Ruth ( Rosenberg ) and William Ehrlich, a salesman.

Darrow was a domestic heater salesman from Germantown, a neighborhood in Philadelphia ( the part of Germantown he lived in is now called Mount Airy ) during the Great Depression.

Keanan was born in Devon, Pennsylvania ( near Philadelphia ), the daughter of Jacqueline ( née Love ) and Irv Sagorsky, a car salesman.

Although the play was performed earlier in Philadelphia, the February 10, 1949 Broadway opening is considered the debut and on February 11, Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times said the following: " Mr. Cobb's tragic portrait of the defeated salesman is acting of the first rank.

Daryl Poynter is a successful but self-destructive Philadelphia real estate salesman who is addicted to cocaine.

Later, Sakakini travelled to the United Kingdom and from there to the United States to join his brother Yusif, a travelling salesman in Philadelphia.

Following his father's death, he moved to California and worked as an orange picker, surveyor, tool dresser and auto salesman.

His father, Gerardo Chiumiento, was a power tool salesman and plied his trade in Canada, Saudi Arabia and Japan before returning to his home country with his son.

Prince Castle salesman Ray Kroc traveled to California to discover why the company had purchased almost a dozen of the units as opposed to the normal one or two found in most restaurants of the time.

He was a salesman for his father, who owned a large jeans manufacturing company in Cartersville, Georgia.

# Sales broker or Seller agency or seller agent: This is a traditional role where the salesman represents a person or company on the selling end of a deal.

He briefly works as a salesman for Cornflake S. Pecially, but causes problems by offering to sell things that the company doesn't make.

As Brown was beginning his career as a salesman, Edison and his direct current system was competing with the Westinghouse electrical company, which used alternating current.

Eventually, Matsushita's assistants left his company and he was left with only his wife and brother-in-law, Toshio Iue, who proved to be a capable salesman and manager in his own right.

In 1928 insurance salesman and financier Thomas E. Braniff financed an aviation company named Paul R. Braniff, Inc. with his brother Paul Revere Braniff.

Working as a travelling salesman for an embroidery company, Chester realised he had the gift of the gab and decided to become a professional comedian.

Thompson rapidly became their best salesman, purchasing the company in 1877 and renaming it the James Walter Thompson Company, which today is the oldest American advertising agency.

Born in Salford, Sutcliffe was educated in Bradford at Cardinal Hinsley Grammar School, but left aged sixteen, and then worked as a salesman and for a printers company, becoming a deputy branch secretary of the print workers trade union SOGAT.

He remained in Cape Town and began work as a salesman, selling and buying electronic devices for a local electronics company.

In 1935 Roy Evans, a former salesman for Austin, bought out the bankrupt company, which was reorganized under the name American Bantam.

Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he met early success as a traveling salesman with the Larkin soap company.

Kanakaredes was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of Connie ( née Temo ; b. 1936 ), a candy company owner, and Harry Kanakaredes ( b. 1928 ), an insurance salesman.

") Between 1950 and 1952, he variously worked as a door-to-door salesman for the Electrolux Vacuum cleaner company, as a Gunther Beer truck relief driver, where he achieved a certain fame for burning out three truck clutches in six weeks, and as a ticket agent for United Airlines, all before escaping into the United States Air Force, where he ultimately became head of the Policy Branch of the USAF Psychological Warfare Division, about which he would write in his humorous autobiography, Which Way to Mecca, Jack ?, that his " principal achievement " was in formulating the principle that " a 500-pound sack of propaganda leaflets, if dropped from an altitude of 13, 000 feet and provided it scored a direct hit, would drive one North Korean soldier approximately four feet into the ground.

His father, Vernon Lindsay Vaughn, worked as a salesman for a toy company.

From 1968-1971, Vince worked as a traveling cup salesman before joining his father's company, the World Wide Wrestling Federation ( WWWF ).

The birth of NC is generally credited to John T. Parsons, a machinist and salesman at his father's machining company, Parsons Corp.

The Duke ( then Lord Lorne ) served as a Page of Honour to Queen Elizabeth II from 1981 to 1983, and subsequently became a sales agent, salesman and company manager.

Later, William ’ s son-in-law Charles Gordon became the company ’ s first salesman and in 1909 spent a year taking Grant ’ s to Australia and the Far East.

Later, he moved to Hong Kong and worked at 3M, an American company, as a warehouse assistant, courier and salesman one after another.

To make more money, Jardine became a salesman with Cable & Wireless before working for a coal mining company in the late 1930s.

Upon advice from a pecan nut salesman, Corll's mother and stepfather started a small family candy company named ' Pecan Prince ', initially operating from the garage of their home.