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...that an earlier will had left the estate to him "in grateful recognition of the many years during which he has been my friend, counselor and attorney." Fisher contends that the new will is invalid since Miss Atwood was "in her dotage and senile." De Bella, still a $173.25-a-week Chicago patrolman, is fighting back, but the will is only the last of his worries...
...split off in 1960 to study acting. Though he had earned $5,000 his last week as one of the brothers, he took a $4,960-a-week cut to work off-Broadway in a revival of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, jumped later to the lead in national companies of The Fantasticks and Carnival. Next came a stint on Broadway in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which was set in a mental hospital and featured Ed as a schizophrenic Indian...
...upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working up by the end of last year to a $450-a-week Las Vegas nightclub stint...
...Flint, Mich., Negro Mayor Floyd J. McCree sadly announced that he was quitting his largely ceremonial, $9.23-a-week post because the city council had voted down an open-housing ordinance. "I'm not going to sit up here and live an equal-opportunity lie," said McCree. Flint (pop. 205,000) was the first major American city to boast a Negro mayor...
When Edmund Wilson was starting out as a $15-a-week reporter on the old New York Evening Sun, an editor rejected his first attempt at an editorial by chiding him: "You don't want to write like Dr. Johnson." The editor was obviously no judge of future men of letters. Today, 51 years and 33 books later, Wilson has in fact become something of a 20th century Samuel Johnson...