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...Yolaine Randall, 26, a dark and vacantly beautiful model, love was a good address. In a Manhattan courtroom last week Yolaine's husband. Sol Randall, 36, a $60-a-week restaurant cashier, tried to explain Yolaine's attitude toward their $186-a-month suite at the Century. "To her, the apartment on Central Park West was society stuff, the 400," said Sol. "I tried to move out-it was too expensive for me. She said she wouldn't live out of the Century. She said, 'When I tell people I live at the Century that means...
...reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said the baker: "Now I'll put some real dough in my bread...
Died. George H. Doran, 86, who rose from a $2-a-week bookstore clerk to become co-publisher of the old Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., one of the world's biggest book publishers; in Toronto. A publisher with a mind of his own, Doran refused to publish D. H. Lawrence's The Rainbow on moral grounds, was allegedly called a coward by John Dos Passos for censoring his Three Soldiers before publishing it. Training a jaundiced eye on postwar bestsellers, Doran once said: "Can't say I think much of 'em. Trashy, dirty stuff ... No spiritual...
...hour for a correspondence-course physical-education degree. Then he woke his wife Beverly, hustled her into running togs and took her off to Malvern Oval for some companionable jogging and wind sprints. After breakfast, Dave hit the books again before he caught a train to his $14.50-a-week job as a delivery boy. Now Dave is a $47-a-week milkman, and he combines his work with his training. He trots around his 12-mile route in Madstone, a Melbourne suburb, followed by his panting horse and milkwagon...
Capital Gains. In London, William E. Hughes was acquitted of charges of failing to pay taxes after he explained that he had saved $16,800 out of his $56-a-week salary by shaving with his brother's razor blades, wearing his father's clothes, charging his grandmother 12% interest on money she borrowed, eating everything on the table even if he did not want it, never going out with women, never taking a holiday trip that cost more than...