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Beset by family illness and financial troubles and living on a $20-a-week dole, Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 36, who won the Medal of Honor after killing 40 Germans in one day on the Italian front, struck it rich on CBS's Strike It Rich. He won the show's $500 jackpot, then got $240.25 more plus an offer of the down payment on a house from sympathetic listeners. To top it all, President Eisenhower sent him a cheering message, recalling how "you rallied to the defense of your comrades," expressing pride "to see your neighbors rallying...
...studious, tireless executive, Fred Kappel first went to work for the Bell System in 1924 as a $25-a-week groundman fresh out of the University of Minnesota, where he helped pay his way by drumming in a jazz band. Kappel soon ran the gamut of line-crew jobs from splicer to circuit tester, by 1934 was a full-fledged engineer in the Nebraska-South Dakota area. He did so well there that he was called into Northwestern Bell's headquarters at Omaha, where he was promoted to vice president in 1942. Seven years later he was shifted again...
Pretty blonde Dolly Pullman Astor, 28, who was a $65-a-week receptionist before she married multimillionaire John Jacob Astor III and ditched him six weeks later, had her maintenance raised by the Florida Supreme Court from $75 to $250 a week...
...itself its new competition for only $5. From the age of 15, Chicagoan Hefner longed to work for the men's magazine, made the grade in its promotion department after he got out of the University of Illinois. But he quit when Esquire would not lift its $80-a-week offer for a Manhattan assignment to $85. From his own Near North Side apartment, on less than $11,000, almost all of it borrowed, he launched Playboy...
...morning he noticed that guests' shoes were losing their gloss, ordered refresher courses for his shoeshine force. Horrified to learn that the Casino was losing 40? a portion on every meat dish, André phone-swoggled his butcher into giving him a $285-a-week price cut. Since he counts on making $1.75 on every $100 bet at roulette, André closely inspects the three inspectors he posts at every gambling table to keep an eye on the croupiers...