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...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...
...bouquets around the room were a tribute to Wilson's first half-century in what G.E. calls its "family." Fifty years ago, at the age of twelve, young Charlie Wilson had come out of the slums of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to take a $3-a-week office boy's job with a company that later became part of G.E. Now it was Wilson's turn to get the same small, 50-year button that, as president, he had pinned on so many other G.E. oldtimers. Last week, at a small banquet in Manhattan...
Down with Crump. Raising rumpuses is nothing new for Edward Towner Leech. At 57, greying, mild-mannered Ed Leech has been a Scripps-Howard editor in Memphis, Birmingham, Denver and Pittsburgh for 31 years, longer than anybody else in the chain. He started out as an $8-a-week cub, would still rather hunch over a typewriter than an editor's desk, turns out a weekly syndicated column for Scripps-Howard...
...cheat like that . . . you'd cheat in other ways." (Her sadder & wiser conclusion: "I know now that love will come when the time is ripe.") In Super Publications' Love Problems & Advice, an ambitious secretary discovers in the nick of time that $100-a-week salaries and mink coats from the boss are not for just taking dictation...
...board (1923-45) of Park & Tilford, Inc. (liquor and cosmetics), president of Dunhill International, Inc. (tobacco and perfume); in Holmdel, N.J. One of Manhattan's biggest real-estate operators (he had an intuitive genius for choosing the right corner-site retail stores), Schulte began as a $5-a-week errand boy, ended owning nearly 200 stores in 125 cities...