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...evening paper route after school, earned $2.25 a week. He worked his way through Michigan's little Alma College by waiting tables, spading gardens, painting signs, talking himself into a job as gym instructor. After the Spanish-American War he broke into journalism as a $10-a-week reporter, married his college sweetheart, lived on a family budget that gave him 50? a week for spending money, usually managed to save a dime out of his allowance toward a paper...
...Godwin will receive $200 a broadcast. For the first month he will work seven days a week, after that five days. He broke into radio in 1935 when the Washington Times gave him $10 a week extra to broadcast its news program. Three years later he found a $100-a-week sponsor, Thompson's Dairy, but was expected to kick back 40% of his check to the paper. Godwin asked the dairy to make out two checks, one for $60 and one for $40. "Then I thought it was unfair for Cissie [Patterson] to take my money...
Both sentimental and pennywise, Punkinhead is keeping his $100-a-week morning broadcast as well as his new $200-a-day Ford contract. Ford doesn't expect him to turn back $40 a week...
Veteran Broadway Producer Lee Schubert, an appellate court decided, has to keep up his $75-a-week payments to Mrs. Evelyn T. Lindley, an ex-showgirl who in 1926 charged that he was her child's father. He denied the charge at the time but agreed to make payments, and figures he has paid her $116,000 so far. She has been married for three years...
...Chicago for the past month a model T laugh-getter has been burning up the road at a $17,000-a-week clip, leaving such streamlined models as Blithe Spirit and Angel Street to choke on its dust. Called Good Night Ladies, the show is the late Avery Hopwood's 22-year-old, towel-draped Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath, with hardly a line left that Hopwood would recognize, but with the situations all they were and then some...