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...efforts at writing fiction gave him years of discouragement. When his publishers suppressed the first printing of Sister Carrie as "immoral" in 1900 he began a period of despair, ending in such poverty that he rented a $1.25-a-week room, lived on a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread a day. "A strange half-wakefulness soon came over him, during which he wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last...
...actor, Douglas was born only yesterday. For all but the last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...
Austerity. In Conington, England, Mrs. Thomas Murden, who cleans out the town telephone booth, threatened to quit when the government asked for half of her 2?-a-week salary in taxes...
...Little Rich Girl. "I used to ride with him, fly with him, fish with him, and just shoot the breeze with him.," she says. She grew up with a fiercely loyal admiration for him. At 19, just out of fashionable Foxcroft School, she went to work as a $30-a-week cub on the Daily News...
...kitchen door. Dancer Vickie Evans, hearing them, opened it from the inside. In the living room with the hostess, a pert blonde movie starlet named Lila Leeds, and Robin Ford, a scared real-estate man, the cops found big, sleepy-eyed Cinemactor Robert Mitchum. The handsome $3,000-a-week screen hero hastily tried to get rid of a cigarette that turned out to be marijuana. A detective found other "reefers" on Mitchum, Ford and Miss Leeds...