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Article: Rich man, Pohrman, sweepstakes relief.(General News)(A retired Glenwood deliveryman gets a $1 million surprise from the famed Publishers Clearing House `prize patrol')
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
"How do you pronounce your last name?" Todd Sloan, a senior vice president with Publishers Clearing House, asked Eugene's Samuel Pohrman.
"Poor-man," Pohrman said rather matter-of-factly.
"You gonna change it now?" Sloan asked.
The 62-year-old retired furniture deliveryman just smiled and chuck- led to himself as reporters and the navy-blue-blazered employees from the direct marketer of discount magazine subscriptions broke into laughter while gathered around the front porch of his one-story, white-clapboard house in the Glenwood area. After all, Pohrman was in a pretty good mood, having just been ...