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...Business. At the peak of his career, Stewart, 28, would seem to have everything a rock-'n'-roll musician could aspire to. Certainly he has everything he dreamed of ten years ago when he was a $25-a-week soccer player and part-time gravedigger in the suburbs of London. Yet, at the end of his U.S. tour, while relaxing by the pool of Los Angeles' Beverly Wilshire Hotel, he confided to TIME Correspondent David DeVoss: "I'm so tired I really don't care." There was bitterness in his voice when he said: "This...
...Last week that dispute was finally settled, with the musicians getting a $40 raise (from a $300-a-week base) over the next three years. No sooner was that accomplished than the members of the New York Philharmonic walked...
...feel that you have some good stuff in you," said Tin Pan Alley Publisher Max Dreyfus as he offered the 19-year-old composer a $35-a-week retainer. "It may take months, it may take a year, it may take five years, but I'm convinced that the stuff is there. Just stop in every morning, so to speak, and say hello...
...answered a Sunday newspaper ad for college students placed by a chain of stationery stores and found that by 10 a.m. on Monday there were no further openings. She went to an employment agency that offered a $95-a-week switchboard job (for which she would have had to pay a $133 finder's fee), but that job never opened up. "I went to Morrisania Hospital because I heard they were hiring, but they told me there was nobody to interview me and they would contact me," she says. "I went back two weeks later, but nothing was available...
When Maryland started a $50,000-a-week lottery in late May, Baltimore's two afternoon papers, the Evening Sun and Hearst's News American, stood to benefit by printing winning numbers daily. Then the promotion-minded News American, which had a small lead in readership but lagged far behind the Sun in ad linage, came up with a shrewd gimmick. It began running daily lists of 51 "losers," numbers not drawn in the state lottery but for which the News offers cash consolation prizes ranging from $10 to $100. Sundays, the loser of the week gets...