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...Transamerica President Sam H. Husbands, 62, promptly resigned his $75,000-a-year job in a huff. Belgrano, the son of the president of San Francisco's Banca Popolare Fugazi (one of the foundations of A. P. Giannini's Bank of America empire), was a $35-a-week messenger for the Bank of California in 1916, served as a 2nd lieutenant in World War I, then joined his father's bank as assistant cashier. Climbing the financial ladder, he became president of Pacific National Fire Insurance (another Giannini property) as well as vice president of Occidental Life...
...degree (he was the youngest man to graduate from Carnegie up to that time), and he went to work at Westinghouse Electric Co. as an 18?-an-hour student apprentice. At 22, Wilson designed the first Westinghouse auto starter. He fell in love with Jessie Ann Curtis, an $8-a-week stenographer, and they married in September 1912. At 28, he was hired away from Westinghouse by Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, to become chief engineer and sales manager of its auto division. Wilson got major credit for an engineering-design program which put Remy (later Delco-Remy...
...longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...left with four small children to feed, and a fifth on the way. Last week Detroit Traffic Judge John D. Watts (see cut) offered Moodie a choice of punishments: go to jail for "four or five years," or help support the McDonell children for five years. Moodie, a $120-a-week tool-factory worker with four children of his own to support, agreed to pay the widow $80 a month...
...Heart. Her right leg was nearly severed, and for weeks she was near death. Then began a slow, painful recovery which included 25 operations, years in wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash who had helped pull her out of the Tagus despite his own broken back...