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...Yankees were stepping into good jobs. Highest stepper was dark, barrel-chested, 30-year-old ex-Sergeant Joe McChester Carthy, Yank's managing editor for three years. Before the war he was a $40-a-week Boston sportswriter, later a racetrack pressagent. Recently he was offered and took a $26,000-a-year job as an editor of Hearst's Cosmopolitan...
Like Amvets, A.V.C. is still too young to fly right. But its articulate one-world policy and its attraction for G.I.s politically left of center is drawing members at a 500-a-week clip. Already landed: Veterans Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (who heads its New York Housing Committee), Marine Raider Colonel Evans Carlson...
...brother, Oleg, a nubile young man. Oleg's marriages, to date: with Million-heiress Merry Fahrney, Cinemactress Gene Tierney. Igor covered sports and read proof for an Italian paper in New York, wrote obituaries and police news for a Washington paper, finally talked himself into a $25-a-week job writing "a spicy little column like I had once done back in Italy." One spicy little column in 1939 aroused three young members of the Warrenton, Va., horsy set, who abducted "Ghighi" Cassini from a country-club dance, tarred & feathered him on a lonely road. He took refuge...
TRIAL BALANCE-William March-Harcourt, Brace ($3.50). William Edward March Campbell worked his way up from $25-a-week stenographer to vice president of a steamship company. During a long illness, he started writing short stories under the pen name of William March. At 44 (in 1938) he quit business to give his full time to writing. Author of two successful novels (Company K, The Tallons), March still specializes in short stories, which have appeared in almost every kind of U.S. magazine from The Yale Review to Esquire. In Trial Balance, Storyteller March has selected 55 of his best: short...
Morse's annual income in good years has been estimated at $260,000. He spent $150,000 on two California homes. When stiffer wartime taxes came along, Morse hired a businessman friend of his to run his financial affairs. The friend now doles him out a modest $30-a-week allowance for lunches, smokes and gin rummy losses...