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After spending four months trying to break into journalism in Manhattan, Wolfe landed a $55-a-week reporter's job on the Springfield (Mass.) Union, moved on to the Washington Post, then went to work for the Trib...
...pace for his sons to follow. He lived in a 17-room Park Avenue apartment that in the early 1920s was a sort of Brown Derby East for the movie set. When his freewheeling days ended in bankruptcy in 1923, so did Son David's $300-a-week allowance and hopes for Yale. With his elder brother Myron, David staked himself for a trip to Hollywood by turning out two quickies that netted $16,000. Once there, David sold himself as a $100-a-week script reader at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, within months was an associate producer at triple...
...union leaders are returned to office almost by rote. Among these is Polish-born David Dubinsky, president of the 440,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. Last week, at 73, Dave Dubinsky was re-elected for a twelfth three-year term and was awarded a $50-a-week raise (to $31,000 a year). As usual, he had only token opposition. Said Dubinsky after 1,000 I.L.G.W.U. convention delegates gave him an ovation: "There is much more to be done. I feel I can give much service...
Help from Washington. The present fracas dates back to last February when the Baltimore Guild merged with the far more militant Washington Guild, which had already won a $200-a-week minimum for Washington Post reporters. During acrimonious contract negotiations, handled by a veteran Washington negotiator, the Guild asked for a $172-a-week minimum and a union shop. But the best offer from management was a $10-a-week raise and no union security. Negotiations heated up and stalled. "The Sun people," said an observer, "are not used to people talking to them like that...
...Norman Ernest Brokenshire, 66, one of the best-known U.S. radio voices in the 1920s and early '30s, who started at New York's WJZ as a news commentator ("How do you do, ladies and gentlemen, how do you dor), went on to become a $1,300-a-week announcer for network variety shows (the Chesterfield Hour, Major Bowes' Amateur Hour) until 1934, when heavy drinking cost him his job, after which he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, made a brief comeback in network radio, then went into semiretirement as a part-time announcer for local stations near...