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...Last week the Pentagon was silent about Jackson, would barely acknowledge that he had ever existed. Jackson, now a $90-a-week mail carrier in San Jose, Calif., also refused to answer questions from newsmen. What talking there was came from another ousted Marine officer, ex-Lieut. William A. Szili, 31, a Norristown, Pa., insurance salesman. And Szili, who wants to return to the Marine Corps, told a weird story...
...pact will add $18.5 million to the newspapers' expenses over the next two years-and may well force the morning papers to raise their price to a dime. But it was far less expensive than it might have been. Powers went into the strike demanding a $37-a-week package increase, wound up with $12.50-including $8 in wages. And while Powers had insisted that his chief concern was not money but three matters of "principle," he got all that he wanted on only one of those principles. The three...
...beeline for the newsroom of the St. Louis Star-Times, which was even then mortally ill (it died in 1951). "I picked the Star-Times because it was the lowest-paying place and seemed most likely to hire a kid," says Havemann. He was taken on as a $15-a-week baseball and football writer, two sports that he knew nothing about. Shifted to rewrite man, Havemann ground out 3,000 to 4,000 words a day. "It was great training,'' he says. "I wrote so much that going home on the streetcar I would read a story...
...publishers and Judge Harold Medina and his little band of serious fact-finders have contented themselves with condemning Powers. To be sure, his refusal to negotiate seriously the issues of wages and benefits is maddening and inexcusable; and the typographers' wage demands are excessive. They are asking an $18-a-week wage increase, $10 more than the Guild won in its strike last month. (On the other band, his demand for a contract expiration date coinciding with the Guild's is perfectly legitimate, since no union should be hamstrung by the pressures of another union's contract...
...happily as Rusty expresses her desire to become the first woman to make love to an astronaut in space. The women fans wear Knockers Up buttons. They know her five LP albums by heart (more than 3,000,000 sold so far). They have made her a $5,000-a-week nightclub star, outdrawing Mort Sahl and Shelley Herman. After all, Rusty comes of a fine background. She is from Milton, Mass. She has a degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, and she once played the piano under the direction of Arthur Fiedler...