First published in 1956, Seize the Day tells the story of Tommy Wilhelm, an out-of-work salesman and failed actor who is lodging with his elderly, respected father in a limbo-ish hotel on the upper west side.
Chicago native earned bachelor, M.B.A. and computer science master's at U. of Illinois, worked as salesman for Oracle.
Cornelius, who supported his family by working as a salesman, was a drinker and a womanizer.
In the late 1950s, Mr. Houghtaling was working as a salesman for a vibrating-bed company.
He struggled, working as a salesman, bouncing around doing different jobs, trying to remake his life.
He was an institutional stock salesman working for Merrill Lynch's London office, he said.
He was working as a salesman at Kraft Foods in the 1990s when he began writing his first book.
The schizophrenia first hit Mr. Siegel, who's now 60, when he was in his 20s and working as a salesman.
Mr. Cuddeback, 30, is a stock salesman working with institutional clients at Harris Nesbitt Gerard, a research and trading firm in New York.
After college, he became a tackle salesman, working weekends on a party boat that took groups fishing off Long Island.
At the time I was working as a salesman on straight commission - just scratching out a living.
