His father, Eli, a struggling paint salesman who saw his family wiped out in the Holocaust, worried constantly about supporting his wife and two sons.

She remarried, and her husband, Gerald Rudolph Ford, a paint salesman with an eighth-grade education, gave the boy his name in formally adopting him.

After expulsion from high school, DeWyze worked as a paint salesman.

In 1958, the story goes, a paint salesman named R. D. Newman saw a customer struggling with a paint roller.

John, 36, a paint salesman, and Michael, 29, a house painter, have been racing pigeons for only two years, but they are lifelong enthusiasts.

Palmer dropped out of school, joined the Coast Guard, and when discharged took a job as a paint salesman.

He was twelve, the son of a paint salesman.

At the same community center, Jim Mosetter, a 58-year-old paint salesman, said he had voted for Mr. Thornburgh.

His father, who emigrated from Poland at the age of 17, was a paint salesman.

Mr. Harrower, a former paint salesman, may finally have found his true calling.