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...very much hurt at first," said Elizabeth Taylor, out of the wisdom that comes from many a wilted romance. "I think the hurt has now left, and that she will consent to Eddie getting a divorce here." Having reassured both herself and her public, Liz left for her $500-a-week quarters at the Hidden Well Ranch. Eddie Fisher was still registered at the Tropicana...
...selection by Gian Carlo Menotti for the role of the husband in The Consul. On Menotti's advice, he studied opera seriously for 2½ years while working nights at a Bulova Watch plant making analogue digital computers. With some misgivings, he finally gave up his $200-a-week job with Bulova to become a regular member of the New York City Opera. MacNeil now specializes in Verdian roles, plans at last to learn Italian. "Once," he recalls ruefully, "I was singing Traviata and flung my hand out because the music felt like it. Then I was afraid...
...family moved to the U.S., went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He composed everything from a symphony to pieces for a string quartet before deciding that a composer-at least of his caliber-"could not make a living in the U.S." He took a $50-a-week job with Columbia just a few months after CBS bought it. Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia's skimpy catalogue of classical works to compete with first-place RCA Victor. He was made executive vice president in 1949, president in 1956, now earns...
Last fortnight Union Boss Leadman chaired a citizens' meeting that in eight minutes railroaded through a plan to keep the private school going full blast, thus prepared for the boycott. Despite the opening of the public school last week, the viscose plant employees stood by the $1-a-week voluntary check-off system first proposed by Leadman's union to support the makeshift private schools. As a result, townsmen noted last week, Leadman's local is "achieving status by the bucketful...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...