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...Litovsk in 1901, the son of a penniless old-clothes dealer named Harry Zonnenberg, who emigrated to New York, scrimped and saved, and brought his family over in 1910. The boy studied; he worked as a journalist; he peddled tinted portrait photographs in the Midwest, worked as a $25-a-week movie critic, and then wandered into a job with an American organization distributing food and medical relief to postwar Europe. Thus, in 1922, the young Sonnenberg went back to Europe-armed this time with a salary and an expense account. He went to Rome, London and Paris; "the significance...
Throughout the book Christina maintains that she loved her mother, but it is a kind of love that sounds very much like hate. Chris, who is a $200-a-week electrical lineman on Long Island, knows exactly how he feels. "I hated the bitch," a Newsday reporter quotes him as saying. "I honestly to this day do not believe that she ever cared for me." He may very well be right; Joan disinherited both of her older children, leaving them out of an estate estimated at about $2 million. Chris and Christina are now challenging the will in court, claiming...
...Metropolitan District Commissioner John Snedeker discovered that John Howe was without approval in leaving his full-time patronage job as a "water sampler" early in order to collect an additional $5500 annually as a tax assessor. Howe knocked off early from his 8 a.m.-to-4 p.m., $270-a-week job twice a month for a year, Snedeker reported. Snedeker also found that Howe was using an MDC truck for his separate assessing duties...
...show is expected to appear in June. Executive Producer Bob Shanks (ABC's Good Morning, America, public television's Great American Dream Machine) has approached at least a dozen candidates for the host job, including Washington Post Executive Editor Ben Bradlee, who turned down a $5,000-a-week salary and a promise that he could retain his role at the newspaper...
Rogers, who was born in Hattiesburg, Miss., began as a $40-a-week runner, handling practically every job before he became art director at the Trahey Advertising Agency. He bought the Trahey firm in 1974, renamed it Peter Rogers Associates, and has since increased billings by 300%. But he intends to stay small. Says he: "We make just as much money, and still have control over the work...