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Corwin forsook his $2,000-a-week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
...seems that Major Joppolo is the only person who loves the villagers. Certainly he is the only one who has a practically realizable vision of what democracy can bring to Adano. Raised in The Bronx, razzed as a wop in school, a truck driver at 16, a $12-a-week grocery clerk at 20, a second-class clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before going into the Army, Victor Joppolo brings to Adano the unbelievable thought that government should be the servant of the people. There are no subtle shadings in Author Hersey's portraits...
Sugar Daddy. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, $10-a-week alimony payer Frank Mosley assembled 1,000 pennies in a bucket of molasses, dug them out again after a visit to the district court...
Barnstormer Ham Lee went to work 25 years ago for the U.S. Post Office, flying the nation's first air mail route (Washington-New York); salary: $300 a month. Army pilot Dutch Kindelberger went to work for Glenn Martin as a $27.50-a-week draftsman. Ever since then Dutch has built them and Ham has flown them...
...Reynolds, the spaghetti-eating correspondent, who is also from Brooklyn, told this colorful tale last week on his radio program, Salute to Youth (NBC, Tues., 7:30 p.m., E.W T.). He recently replaced the show's William L. (They Were Expendable) White as Goodyear's $1,500-a-week coast-to-coast war-story teller...