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How does Robert Morley account for his success as an actor? When I learned how to sell vacuum cleaners, he says, I learned how to act. To be a door-to(...)
How does Robert Morley account for his success as an actor? When I learned how to sell vacuum cleaners, he says, I learned how to act. To be a door-to(...)

How does Robert Morley account for his success as an actor? When I learned how to sell vacuum cleaners, he says, I learned how to act. To be a door-to(...)

Date10/4/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: How does Robert Morley account for his success as an actor? When I learned how to sell vacuum cleaners, he says, I learned how to act. To be a door-to-door salesman is a good training to be an actor as anything.
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Loading children into the back of his station wagon for a trip home from nursery school, bus operator John Davis says he is breaking the law but he must do it to make a living and I have learned how to carry children in the safest possible way. Police vigilance has been increased since a recent accident that involved a school bus in which 11 child passengers were shaken up.
Loading children into the back of his station wagon for a trip home from nursery school, bus operator John Davis says he is breaking the law but he must do it to make a living and I have learned how to carry children in the safest possible way. Police vigilance has been increased since a recent accident that involved a school bus in which 11 child passengers were shaken up.
4/10/1974
Doreen MacDonald picked up a toaster from a pile of battered appliances in the Qeen St. E. Soup-to-nuts junk store run by Jack Himself Cohen. One dollar. Himself said. Does it work? Doreen asked. I don't know. Why don't you plug it in and find out? All I do is sell as is. You won't plug it in? No. Doreen paid the $1 and once again proved Himself's credo: I don't polish anything. I learned my lesson when I polished the $25 special finish off a candelabra early in business. Since then I sell everything just as it is. [Incomplete]
Doreen MacDonald picked up a toaster from a pile of battered appliances in the Qeen St. E. Soup-to-nuts junk store run by Jack Himself Cohen. One dollar. Himself said. Does it work? Doreen asked. I don't know. Why don't you plug it in and find out? All I do is sell as is. You won't plug it in? No. Doreen paid the $1 and once again proved Himself's credo: I don't polish anything. I learned my lesson when I polished the $25 special finish off a candelabra early in business. Since then I sell everything just as it is. [Incomplete]
6/13/1972
Learned responsibility: Joe Pimentel, here with his father Jose, says being the son of an immigrant taught him how ot work and accomplish at an early age, although he sometimes wishes he had it easier
Learned responsibility: Joe Pimentel, here with his father Jose, says being the son of an immigrant taught him how ot work and accomplish at an early age, although he sometimes wishes he had it easier
10/6/1986
Learned responsibility: Joe Pimentel, here with his father Jose, says being the son of an immigrant taught him how to work and accomplish at an early age, although he sometimes wishes he had it easier
Learned responsibility: Joe Pimentel, here with his father Jose, says being the son of an immigrant taught him how to work and accomplish at an early age, although he sometimes wishes he had it easier
10/6/1986
W. Autobiography How to build an empire on an orange crate or 121 lesson I never learned in school
W. Autobiography How to build an empire on an orange crate or 121 lesson I never learned in school
11/24/1993
Peter Harris, science teacher of school programs at the Ontario Science Centre, will try to take the mystery out of Bernoulli's principle and explain how a vacuum cleaner and a beach ball that looks like a globe can be used to defy cavity
Peter Harris, science teacher of school programs at the Ontario Science Centre, will try to take the mystery out of Bernoulli's principle and explain how a vacuum cleaner and a beach ball that looks like a globe can be used to defy cavity
3/1/1989
Not alone: Mark Sanderson, 20, a Seneca College student, will speak at a symposium April 29 on how he's learned to overcome his learning disability.
Not alone: Mark Sanderson, 20, a Seneca College student, will speak at a symposium April 29 on how he's learned to overcome his learning disability.
2/26/1991
Paul Cox: Australian filmmaker says he has learned to meet success on his own terms
Paul Cox: Australian filmmaker says he has learned to meet success on his own terms
9/6/1986
He really cleaned up, Loris Petracco, 25, was about to go to work as a part-time floor cleaner yesterday when he learned he'd won $404,833.70 in Satur(...)
He really cleaned up, Loris Petracco, 25, was about to go to work as a part-time floor cleaner yesterday when he learned he'd won $404,833.70 in Satur(...)
6/6/1983
The lame boy and how he learned to read and write
The lame boy and how he learned to read and write
1854
The novel adventures of Tom Thumb the great : showing how he visited the insect world and learned much wisdom
The novel adventures of Tom Thumb the great : showing how he visited the insect world and learned much wisdom
1841
Raymond Cheng: Queue-jumper says he was surprised by how quick and easy it was to immigrate. He says he had to scramble to sell his assets in Hong Kong.
Raymond Cheng: Queue-jumper says he was surprised by how quick and easy it was to immigrate. He says he had to scramble to sell his assets in Hong Kong.
8/2/1989