Monica Wood's second novel, "My Only Story," introduces us to Rita Rosario, a divorced hairdresser and Tarot card reader who finds her salvation in a sad and overweight dental supply salesman named John Reed.

On December 8, 1974, at the age of 19, she and Jeffrey Ross, a 25-year-old medical supply salesman, eloped to Las Vegas and were married at the Chapel of the Bells.

He ran a small light plant in his home neighborhood of Sydenham, and later had a career as an industrial supply salesman in the United States.

Two of Dr. Kevorkian's associates, Neal Nicol, a medical supply salesman whose home has been the site of at least four suicides, and Dr. Georges Reding of Galesburg, Mich., a psychiatrist who has been present at some of the suicides, were charged with several lesser crimes, including improperly moving bodies.

John Woodward, a 36-year-old electrical supply salesman from Little Silver, N.J., who is currently unemployed, used this information to trade in the securities markets, the United States Attorney's Office said.

"You brought us back to the human race," Mr. Shery, a retired medical supply salesman who learned about Mr. Tott only 10 days before, said as they held hands.

Done serving his nation's teeth, he was a runner for a Wall Street investment firm for a year and a dental supply salesman for a month.

Mr. DiGiovanni, a dental supply salesman, had just parked his car in the garage when the bomb went off.

The process of policing equipment and visitors had enough cracks that, in violation of hospital policy, the medical supply salesman was able to roll an unauthorized piece of equipment into the hospital, and then operate a part of it during surgery, the administrators said.