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Pearson, a $300,000-a-year capitalist type with a clear anti-Communist record, was thrown on the defensive in this headbutting session, if only because it seemed to make his $5,000-a-week radio sponsor, Adam Hats, slightly nervous (the Senator implied that anyone who bought an Adam Hat was aiding & abetting Moscow). Pearson cried that the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and even the President of France had applauded him for fighting Communism. He dared McCarthy to repeat the charges outside the libel-proof citadel of the Senate. McCarthy, who knows a lot about libel...
...this year, numbers some of the world's outstanding Haydn authorities (including Denmark's Jens Peter Larsen, Boston's Karl Geiringer) on its advisory board. Nonetheless, the society's 19 staff members in Boston, New York and Vienna still limit their salaries to a $60-a-week top. Says Landon: "Every cent net goes back into the 'Complete Works...
Newhouse broke into journalism in 1912 while he was a $2-a-week clerk for the receiver for New Jersey's bankrupt Bayonne Times. Because the receiver was not interested in the job, Newhouse was made publisher of the paper at 18. Within a year, he pulled the Times out of the red. After that, Newhouse bought other floundering papers in the New York area, including the Staten Island Advance, the Long Island Press and Star-Journal, and the Newark Star-Ledger. Newhouse hired better staffs, cut costs, built up a combined circulation...
...Sergeant Quirt in the Broadway version of What Price Glory?) was raided by the police during a noisy party and thrown into jail for possession of illegal whisky and gambling equipment. Hopalong-to-be suffered; when newspapers ran his picture by mistake, Radio Pictures tore up a $3,000-a-week contract, pushed him adrift...
...donated much of his $25,000 salary to needy composers. He has not changed his ways in Manhattan. Last month, when he took the Philharmonic into Manhattan's Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone in a small apartment half a block from Carnegie Hall, usually eats unceremoniously at a hamburger shop across the street...