That led our ad salesmen to lobby for a peek at the whole table of contents, causing quite a stir until they were denied.

The idea of having ad salesmen and "minipublishers" help plan editorial sections is terrifying to anyone who's ever met an ad salesman.

For years, ad salesmen here didn't even take lunch, because there was no arrangement for covering their phones.

He was a failure as an ad salesman, however, and was fired after just six weeks.

She now heads into 2006, which looks like another miserable year for the industry, without one of the most talented ad salesmen in the business.

"I used to be an ad salesman myself," he added, "for Scripps Howard."

He is the ad salesman for Free Talk Live.

These hard-pressed pencil markings represented what would surely turn him from ad salesman into multimillionaire overnight.

The ad salesman passes this on to the publisher's office and the publisher may then just happen to mention it over lunch with the editor.

You can be sure that ad salesmen for Time magazine, for instance, boast that its readers love to globe-trot.