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...president is 49-year-old LaVergne Jacobson, who signed on with Webb in 1938 as a $25-a-week timekeeper...
Only a $15-a-week steno when she sailed from London two years ago, Toni Avril Gardiner, 21, was back home again. As Princess Muna al Hussein, wife of Jordan's King Hussein, she checked into the palatial Dorchester Hotel with 27 satchels of finery, then toured the town in a murmuring maroon Bentley with a Scotland Yard escort on a shopping expedition to buy toys for her five-month-old son. And wasn't it fun to lunch at Buckingham Palace? Said the Princess: "I just hope I don't drop anything-any of those forks...
Died. Ernie Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana...
...Trust still wants no truck with the $5-a-week depositor, but there are signs that it will take clients who are merely silver-plated. Says President Buek: "We have tried hard to live down our reputation. We hate to have a man come in with only half a million and be afraid that we won't want to bother with...
...Last week the interregnum ended as Shor proudly opened the doors of his new place, which, by happenstance, occupies the site of the old Leon & Eddie's, where Shor had been a $50-a-week bouncer. His new joint, a handsome nine stories high, cost $5,000,000. Inside, the new Shor's reflected the old: a huge circular bar, a wood-paneled main room, dining room upstairs, hatchicks who look like ladykins. Chief added feature: a 400-car garage on the top seven floors, which will enable customers, in the words of a Shor lieutenant, "to scratch...