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...Many of the 350,000 pilots trained during the war wanted to stay in aviation. But most need additional training to step into commercial flying jobs, even if there were any open. (U.S. airlines now have only 5,000 pilot jobs.) Nor did they like what was left-$30-a-week jobs at airline ticket counters...
...when Abe performs. Outside a little circle of Hollywood and Manhattan partygoers, few know the 35-year-old, balding, blinking radio writer whose hobby is poking fun at Tin Pan Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will air some of his songs. He has also teamed up with Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf to put them in book form and he has accepted an offer from Decca to record his burlesques...
...Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert E. Lee, 27, both from Armed Forces Radio and full of fizz and vinegar. Lee and Lawrence have faithfully heeded some 5,000-a-week listeners' requests, personally answered impossible pleas such as finding apartments or proposing marriage...
...title then was general manager. But he knew that it was the news, not the advertising, that makes the paper. He hunted up crack newsmen, paid them well, invested heavily in editorial promotion, cut out the circulation gags & stunts. Said he: "You can't have $75-a-week editors and $400-a-week business managers and expect to meet the competition...
Characteristically, Phil Murray said nothing about examining the steel company's books or debating the ins & outs of the profit system. He simply wanted a $2-a-day raise for his men, to keep their take-home pay around its $56-a-week wartime average. He firmly believed the companies could pay it without raising prices, but he would just as soon not argue the point; prices were a matter between the companies and OPA. And the $2 figure was subject to compromise anyway...