Another "BAD" memory:
Who could place (sell) the most magazines?
In good old Aussie land, the champion must have been a guy called Vince McNee. He's an interesting character.
He came from Brissie (Brisbane), and had been raised in a catholic orphanage, local witnesses spoke of him being the 'illegitimate' child of a certain local Catholic priest.
Whatever the truth of that, he certainly had certain Irish charm characteristics and could give spell-binding talks.
In Sydney we first got to know him when he was appointed as a circuit overseer, and was willing to do things a little differently.
Like witnessing on Sydney's suburban train network. His technique was simple. Start from one end and work the 8 carriages to the end. He'd approach the passengers, holding out the two magazines, and say, "The latest, 20 cents!" Whether it was his Irish charm or whatever, I don't know, but he could place 100s of magazines in a day.
If you were travelling on the train network, and found WT's and Awakes scattered around, you'd know that Vince had been on that train. The fact that the mags. were on the floor indicated that few had been read.
The Train dept. soon became unhappy with the litter, and banned sales of any product on the network.
I said Vince was an interesting guy. He was twice, invited to Gilead, and twice dismissed from Gilead. I never heard why.
He finally came to an end, when no longer used in any organisational capacity, his wife came home unexpectedly one day, and found him in the shower with a certain handsome young ex-bethel brother.
He was divorced, and disfellowshipped, and I never heard of him again.
But he could certainly place magazines!
