INSURANCE: The Million-Dollar Oldster

The grand old man of U.S. life insurance turned 80 last week, took time out to enjoy a birthday dinner at Manhattan's Union Club and to admire the hundreds of cards that festooned the bottle-green walls of his office in the Empire State Building. But otherwise, it was another working day to Julian S. Myrick. One of the best salesmen in the business, he has sold more than a million dollars' worth of insurance a year for the past two years to qualify for the Million Dollar Round Table, the profession's highest honor, attained last year only by 2,688...

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