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Harry J. Karafin glittered when he walked the streets of Philadelphia, the perfect personification of the man who had risen from rags to riches. In 1939, when he was 24, he started newspapering as an $18-a-week copy boy for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was promoted to clerk, then to reporter. Harry had nerve. He dug. He probed. He was brassy, tough, cocky. Harry had pull at city hall. With the help of a former assistant district attorney, he browsed freely through confidential files in the D.A.'s office to get leads for his searing exposes of rackets...
...roughly 1,500 supporters from sister unions. That was a lot of muscle flexing, considering that the contract dispute involved a mere 300 announcers and newsmen from the three networks' outlets in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. For the reporters, AFTRA was asking a $325-a-week guaranteed salary plus at least 50% of the fees earned for sponsored appearances; the networks were offering $300 and 25%. For the announcers, the industry's proposal of $220 a week was within $5 of the union's demand. AFTRA also was asking networks to maintain announcers solely...
...kept Toledo's two newspapers, the morning Times and the afternoon Blade, shut down for nearly five months, was finally settled last week. Not that the two sides had ever been all that far apart. The unions were asking for a two-year contract with a $24-a-week raise; the company offered a 28-month contract with a $20 raise...
...took a job with a Chicago firm that produced and printed cardboard cartons. It was, says Hefner, the closest thing to journalism he could get. Eventually he landed a job with the subscription department of Esquire magazine. But when, after several months, he asked for a $5-a-week raise, he was turned down. He went to work briefly for a publication called Children's Activities, but he decided it was time to start his own magazine?and not for kids. In 1953 he hocked his furniture for $600, scraped together $10,000. He later persuaded a talented designer...
Born. To Hildarene Harris, 31, Brooklyn, N.Y., practical nurse, and Lionel Harris, 31, $106-a-week postal clerk: quintuplets (four girls and a boy, one girl stillborn, the others expected to live); after taking a fertility drug following five years of childless marriage; in Brooklyn. Two days later, Maria Flores de Ortiz, 28, the wife of a Mexican farm worker, gave birth to five girls (one stillborn) in Chavarria, 65 miles from Mexico City; she already has three boys, took no drugs...