A Charmed Life: A Memoir

With no particular talent the writer explains how he stumbled into a profession that eventually and surprisingly worked out to his benefit. Children of the immediate post war era were expected to be seen and not heard which only added to an innate shyness; not the best formula for the world of sales where front was considered to be de rigueur.

Nonetheless with little else available in careers this Mecca of the unskilled did at least offer some financial inducements. As a result success even...