It was his experience that only one good salesman was found out of every seven hired -- and only one was hired out of every seven interviewed.

Each salesman was to read a sheet containing a description of the product.

Bobbie had been head of the alloy division, while John was just another good salesman in the regular branch.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

His father, William Jefferson Blythe, Jr., was a traveling salesman who died in an automobile accident three months before Bill was born.

Blyton was born on 11 August 1897 at 354 Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, England, the eldest child of Thomas Carey Blyton ( 1870 – 1920 ), a salesman of cutlery, and his wife, Theresa Mary Harrison Blyton ( 1874 – 1950 ).

Buddy, a traveling salesman, is having an affair with a girl on the road ; Sally is still as much in love with Ben as she was years ago ; and Ben is so self-absorbed that Phyllis feels emotionally abandoned.

He was the third son of Harriet Catherine ( née Curran ) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman.

* 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 ".

The skit would start with a hand-held camera zooming up to the front door and the door being flung open to reveal the fast-talking salesman standing behind the counter surrounded by the junk he was trying to sell.

In it, Palin played a car salesman who repeatedly refused to admit that there was anything wrong with his customer's ( Chapman ) car, even as it fell apart in front of him.

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.

Under these circumstances, Soriano was initially very receptive to an offer from a Milwaukee-based group headed by car salesman Bud Selig.

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 ).

Rodríguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican-American parents Rebecca ( née Villegas ), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman.

Popeil learned his trade from his father, Samuel, who was also an inventor and carny salesman of kitchen-related gadgets such as the Chop-O-Matic and the Veg-O-Matic.

The origins of this was parodied in a famous scene from the movie Forrest Gump when Forrest is on his multiple jogs across America, and wipes his face on a T shirt given him by a struggling salesman, and on the shirt, as if transferred there by Forrest's face, is the image of the happy face, whereupon the man gets his idea.

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.

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.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

He didn't think it was possible for this couple to be pretending.

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

He was naked except for a clout.

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.

Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

Was I sure, he asked, that I knew what I was applying for??

At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.

That was the day that he had practically mopped up the main street of Big Sands with Aaron McBride, field boss for the Highlands Oil & Gas Company.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

I was just doing my job, just following orders, and for that he's going to kill me.

Somehow more terrible than the certainty that he was about to die was the knowledge that Lord would probably not suffer for it: the murder would go unpunished.

He was readying a batch of sourdough biscuits for the Dutch oven.