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...Paix); in Manhattan. He and brothers Pierre, André and Louis rode the crest of extravagant wining and dining in Manhattan before Prohibition, introduced dinner dances, the first women's bar in the city, lured Vernon and Irene Castle as entertainers. Rudolph Valentino as a $10-a-week gigolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 30, 1942 | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Studios were besieged with requests from top executives, $50-a-week writers, et al, for contract releases permitting them to enlist or enroll as civilian volunteers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood to the Wars | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...World War 1 chief of the War Labor Board, for wrecking a hard-won labor agreement; and the huge, hard-boiled man who has seldom been down a mine in the last 20 years, who lives luxuriously on $25,000 a year (and perquisites) squeezed out of the $35-a-week earnings of 400,000 very poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Union v. the U. S. | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Want to Set the World on Fire (The Ink Spots; Decca). No. 1 on the jukes and networks, beautifully sung by Decca's four Negroes, who used to be $12-a-week theater porters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: November Records | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Writer John Collier (His Monkey Wife) was ordered by a Los Angeles court to pay Actress Shirley Palmer Collier $150-a-week temporary alimony pending trial of her divorce suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mouthpieces | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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