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...first of Bing Crosby's $30,000-a-week transcribed series for Philco-with Bob Hope as guest star-was waxed last week, but ran two minutes overtime. Producer Bill Morrow put it up to Philco: whose lines should he cut-Crosby's or Hope's? Philcomen went into a huddle, came out with a decision for audiences to applaud: "Cut the commercial...
...bargaining for a 48-hour week (before the war they worked every other day, but the wartime servant shortage changed that; on occasions of state, they are often obliged to work until midnight). Robert Anderson, Deputy General Secretary of the C.S.U., has already obtained an average 27-shilling ($5.50)-a-week raise for the recruits. There is no closed-shop talk at the Palace, but the C.S.U. says it will go all out to capture the four rugged individualists who have not yet joined...
WASHINGTON --Sen. Theodore G. "The Man" Bilbo, (D.), Miss., isn't going to stand for defeat, even if "it's a joke, son," and he gets $500-a-week...
Joan Edwards, radio's Hit Parade singer, gave her husband a headache when she told the American Magazine's readers that her weekly earnings (reportedly $3,000) were three times his. His first wife promptly sued to have her $40-a-week alimony boosted...
...Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust, won a seat in the Illinois legislature, stumped Chicago for a reform candidate for mayor, was rewarded with the job of public works commissioner...