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...with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
Died. Winthrop Hiram Smith, 67, who started in 1916 as a $7-a-week runner for the fledgling brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch & Co., fashioned the company's 1940 merger with E. A. Pierce, its 1941 merger with Fenner & Beane, and in 1958 finally got his own name on the door of the world's largest international investment house as the directing partner, becoming board chairman a year later; of Parkinson's disease; in Litchfield, Conn. Modest but shrewd, Smith brought Main Street to Wall Street by directing a massive advertising drive aimed at turning middle-income...
Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including...
Died. Gregory Ratoff, 63, flamboyant actor, director and producer who played all his roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...