Dearth Of A Salesman
January, 1956
Dearth of a SalesmanScratch a salesman and you'll get the blood of a worried man. And maybe what you get won't be blood, either.A salesman worries about many things besides the farmer's daughter. He often has to plan an elastic work day, keep himself out of baseball games and movies, smile at sons-of-bitches, put up with indifferent food, and wield a faster throat cutter than his competition. But whether he travels on the road or works in one town and goes home every night, he always has one con...