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...California's former (1953-59) Republican Governor Goodwin Jess Knight has most of the things that make men content: a handsome wife, a pleasant home in Los Angeles, robust good health, and a comfortable income that includes an annual $16,000 state pension and an $850-a-week job as a television commentator. But Goodie Knight is restless: he wants to be Governor again...
...filming of Happyland. Even then she was a raving beauty, and Director Irving Pichel plucked her out of the crowd to give her a bit part. In her next, Tomorrow Is Forever, she swiped scene after scene from Orson Welles, and soon established herself as a $1,000-a-week child star. Roared Orson: "She's terrifying...
...easy.'' says Dr. Canet. ''We simply returned to an area we knew.'' But in New Orleans, where 400 refugees are clustered, an architect works in a shipyard, a former gentleman farmer loads milk cans in a dairy, and a lawyer is a $50-a-week warehouse checker. "I have to go on," the lawyer says. "With a family of four, I cannot slip...
Though the public tended to take all the huffing and puffing lightly, fact was that the Met season was in more jeopardy than either management or musicians had originally anticipated. Local 802 President Alfred J. Manuti had lost control of the negotiations. The union demand for a whopping $98-a-week increase in base pay came originally from a nine-man committee made up, according to Met musicians, of "the most radical members of the orchestra." (The committee had made such impossible demands in an RCA Victor recording contract in 1959 that RCA was forced to drop its Record...
Soaring Costs. The musicians clearly had a case, and they were not modest about asserting it. They demanded a whopping $78-a-week increase for the 1961-62 season. The Met was outraged, told the union, according to Local 802 President Alfred J. Manuti, that its proposals were "not to be seriously considered now or ten years from now." The Met offered the musicians a cumulative $6 raise by the 1963-64 season, argued that to give the musicians the full $78 would add $750,000 to the cost of an operation that already runs at a chronic deficit (approximately...