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...with Boyden Sparkes. The book, which ran serially in the Saturday Evening Post, is: 1) a lively account of the pioneering days of the U.S. automobile industry; 2) an intimate synoptic history of General Motors; 3) the success story of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who started as a $12.50-a-week draftsman in the Hyatt Roller Bearing Co., about three years later was running the company...
...wallet ("I suppose I shouldn't have that much"), little more than a change of underwear in his zipper bag, he cheerfully suffered many an interview and photo. He also dramatized the leveling influence of the draft by sticking close to a contrasting fellow recruit: an awed $16-a-week Stock Exchange page...
Rizzuto's rise to baseball's top crust has been almost as spectacular as his playing. Son of a $20-a-week Manhattan dock worker, he captained his high-school team, was picked up by Yankee Scout Paul Krichell four years ago-after the Dodgers had turned him down because he was too small. He was started off in the Yankees' Class D club in the Bi-State League, progressed rapidly to its Class B club at Norfolk, to its AA club at Kansas City. This spring Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy brought Rizzuto and Priddy...
...Angeles' Cocoanut Grove. The Grove fired him for disappearing on long weekends to Palm Springs and Agua Caliente, and Mack Sennett hired him to act in some movie shorts. Prohibition booze gave him laryngitis which muffled his voice to a whisper, and he received a $3,000-a-week radio contract. Eddie Lang, his best friend and accompanist, died, and Bing wound up making pictures for Paramount. He seemed listless, but his income always increased...
...father, B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, has been a top producer for 20-odd years. Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1936, he has worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like a mammoth jigsaw puzzle...