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...death since the age of four. A sharecropper's son who grew up in the deepest poverty, Johnson had developed a persecution complex early in life, and though he was fearful of the plant (he lost a fingertip in a conveyor belt in 1969), he saw the $150-a-week job as the most important thing in his life...
...Elmont, N.Y. At 14, Neloy ran away from the slums of Chicago's South Side to become a jockey. "How was I to know," he later sighed, "that I was going to grow up to be 6 ft. 2 in. and 220 lbs.?" Neloy took a $5-a-week job as a groom. He was hired by the Phipps family and wound up training such moneymakers as Successor and Buckpasser. In 1966 Neloy earned a record $2,456,250 for the Phipps' stables...
...Jean-Paul Sartre didn't say that, and it certainly wasn't Spiro T. Agnew. It was Dick Cavett. There is something curious about a $15,000-a-week entertainer who is afflicted with Weltschmerz instead of narcissism. Gloomily, he keeps wondering how it has come to pass that he is a big TV star? What's he doing there anyway...
...Humbard's church also has business interests that contribute a small part of the total income. (One of them, Brooklyn's Real Form Girdle Co., once inspired a newspaper to headline a Humbard story ROCK OF AGES RESTS ON FIRM FOUNDATION.) Rex receives a $500-a-week salary, in addition to a comfortable home and staff cars provided by the cathedral...
Died. Russ Hodges, 60, veteran baseball announcer; of a heart attack; in Mill Valley, Calif. Though he held a law degree, Hodges opted for a $25-a-week job broadcasting Cincinnati Red games in 1932. His enthusiastic delivery carried him to prosperity and New York, where he teamed with the Yankees' Mel Allen. In 1949 Hodges began his 22-year stint as "Voice of the Giants." His "Bye, Bye Baby" blessing for each Giant home run became his trademark and endured, as he did, when the Giants moved to San Francisco...