"They're good blokes," said Phil Tapsell, a sporting goods salesman in Perth.

Sue was born in the Gosforth district of Newcastle upon Tyne, where her father worked as an electrical goods salesman.

"Don't make it a racial issue," said Joseph C. Michaels, a 44-year-old sporting goods salesman and 22-year resident of East Setauket.

To support himself, Baum initially took jobs as a newspaper reporter and a dry goods salesman.

After two unsuccessful attempts at retailing, J.L. became a traveling dry goods salesman for a Nashville wholesale grocer.

Bamboo Crafts were started in the late 14th century to create baskets for travelling goods salesmen.

"It's not just a myth, it's the real thing," swears Vanildo Mello, 37, a sporting goods salesman here.

His father was a door-to-door dry goods salesman, while his mother worked full-time in a hatmaking factory.

In 1872 Aaron Montgomery Ward, a traveling dry goods salesman, started selling to farmers by mail through a one-page catalog list.

His father was a dry goods salesman, and the family had emigrated to the U.S. in 1920.