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After Williams, Harry Fisher turned pro, went around the world as a $50-a-week boxing instructor on the S. S. Franconia. Later he drifted into banking, peddled stocks in Manhattan and took up golf seriously, shot a 66. He started playing squash rackets in earnest and cleaned up tournaments around New York. Three years ago, when a match with hard-hitting John Doeg left him feeling wobbly, he threw away his racket and has never played since...
Illinois-born (49 years ago), Harold Gray was a farm boy until he graduated from Purdue University in 1917, then became a $15-a-week reporter for the Chicago Tribune. Soon he was art-department handyman. In the early 1920s he helped Artist Sidney Smith (The Gumps), finally created a strip of his own, Little Orphan Annie, which is circulated in 345 papers and, with a circulation of approximately 16,000,000 daily and 20,000,000 Sunday, nets Artist Gray a six-figure annual income, enables him to live and work in an expansive home in Green Farms, Conn...
Vexed, Producer Saul Heller refused Dowling his full $1,000-a-week salary. Dowling snorted that script-reading was better than prompting. So Heller appealed to Actors' Equity...
Toolmaker Schooler (now on the graveyard shift, 12:30 to 7:30 a.m., at Douglas Aircraft) inspects his interests until about 11:30 each evening, then drives to his $55-a-week job in a green Buick convertible, cream-trimmed. Most of his factory pay goes into war bonds. Most of his dance-hall profit, says he, goes back into the business (decorating and furnishing Aragon took about $50,000). After splitting his holdings with his wife on a cornmumty property arrangement, Factory Worker Schooler had a 1942 income tax of $8,500. Said he, musing: "Ever since...
Newcomer. Observers rated Candidate Murphy as little more than a common Garden State variety of politician. A onetime plumber, he was a $28-a-week union official when elected to Newark's City Commission in 1937. As Newark's Mayor (since 1941), he has worked hard...