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What actually happened, said Niles, was that he had bumped into Lyons at a first night. Niles told Lyons of a chat with Playwright Arthur Miller, once a $22.77-a-week member of the WPA's Federal Theater, now author of the hit Death of a Salesman. Miller had told Niles that his income taxes were so big lately that he felt he had "amply repaid the Government for the help it gave me in WPA days." Niles said he repeated the Miller remark to Lyons, who built a White House survey...
...Williams likes fishing best, is especially proud of his reputation as one of the nation's best tiers of fisherman's flies. Last week he was the star flycaster in the Sportsmen's Show at Boston's Mechanics Building. Said Ted of the $5,000-a-week fee he picked up for the performance: "I tell myself, 'People won't even remember you a few years from now. You'll be nobody, so you'd better take care of yourself while...
Died. William ("Billy") Gould, 81, oldtime vaudeville star, once a $3,500-a-week performer at Oscar Hammerstein's Victoria Music Hall, later a $22.77-a-week WPA hand; in Manhattan...
...putting things to the test-and turning the results into first-rate copy-ever since she got her master's degree in English from Radcliffe College in 1938. Shortly after, she married Photographer Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance...
...tried it out in a real white-collar city, insurance capital Hartford, Conn., where Zoo went like animal crackers during a kindergarten recess. Published on July 7, it hit the bestseller lists in two weeks, headed them in two months and has stayed firmly on top ever since. Last week, with over 260,000 copies sold, it was moving over the counters at a 10,000-a-week clip...