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Success has not spoiled James Fahey. Though his gob's-eye view of battle, Pacific War Diary 1942-45 (TIME, Aug. 16) is a smash critical hit, Amateur Author Fahey, 45, is happy in his $93.20-a-week job as a Waltham, Mass., garbage man. "I won't quit my sanitation job until I have been named Garbage Man of the Year," he said lightly in an interview, for there had never been such a title. But at the magazine of the trade, the Refuse Removal Journal, the remark brought action: Fahey was duly informed that the magazine...
Working for Billy. Along Fleet Street, he inevitably was dubbed Britain's Henry Ford-and the careers of the two in many ways ran parallel. Son of an accountant who fell on hard times, William Morris* was forced to leave school at 16, became a 70?-a-week bicycle mechanic. When he was turned down for a raise, he quit and went to work "for Billy Morris," started making both bicycles and motorcycles. Gradually, automobile owners began driving up for repairs-and Morris decided that autos were his future. In 1910, with $20,000 in savings...
Born. To John Struthers, 46, $46.50-a-week factory worker in Sydney, Australia, and Janette Struthers, 44: a twin boy and girl, their fifth set of twins; bringing their family to 14 children. Said Struthers to his children as he came back from the hospital: "Mummy's done it again...
...family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship, strove to embody a new, impatient, class-defying England. The moral decay surrounding the Profumo affair, he tried hard to suggest, must be blamed on the Tories. Referring to Christine Keeler's reported $14,000-a-week nightclub contract, Wilson declared: "There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its Prime Minister...
Competition & Collision. The backgrounds of Cleveland's newspaper antagonists could hardly be more dissimilar. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, quit school in the seventh grade to work as a $3-a-week copy boy. At 20, he was city editor of the Press, the oldest paper in the Scripps-Howard chain (founded in 1878). Thirty years Vail's senior, he still works like a dray horse, turning up at 6 every morning and averaging five hours of sleep a night. "We have a lot of young people on this paper...