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...among 435 members (one other seat is presently vacant). He would thus have to exchange his large, plush office for one of freshman dimensions and even forfeit his choice parking space in the congressional garage. He would also be required to sever from the office payroll his $19,300-a-year secretary-companion, Corinne Huff...
Starting this summer, construction will take six to eight years, require 9,000 man-years of labor, create enough office space (2,800,000 sq. ft.) for 15,000 employees. The 81-acre plot, long the ramshackle home of the city's wholesale produce market, will soon be cleared by urban renewal. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency sold the land for a bargain $11.5 million, but the city expects a $3,000,000-a-year bonanza in realty taxes, plus increased convention and tourist trade. Says Redevelopment Director M. Justin Herman: "We held out to find one buyer...
...entertainment field, which now accounts for 30% of his company's sales. Last December Bluhdorn hired former CBS-TV President John T. Reynolds, who will now work to expand Desilu's profits as well as Paramount's TV business. Weary of Desilu's $75,000-a-year presidency, Lucille is said to be anxious to sell her 60% shareholding, worth more than $10 million, and devote full time to being Desilu's star performer. >Humble Oil & Refining, Jersey Standard's domestic subsidiary, will pay more than $30 million for California Standard...
...hitch in the Navy, wound up as a Los Angeles gas-station manager. A customer gawked at his size (6 ft. 4 in., 210 Ibs.), suggested that he become a policeman. So did several cops who stopped in for gas. Reddin signed up in 1941 as a $2,040-a-year patrolman, became, in turn, a detective sergeant, adjutant to the traffic chief, lieutenant in charge of training, a much respected captain of the Watts division, deputy chief and head of the technical-services bureau...
...destroyed. Under a garish, multicolored letterhead, its owner once answered a formal appointment request by advising "I am personally away more or less." When he died of a heart ailment during a Florida vacation last week at 94, L. L. (for Leon Leonwood) Bean left a $4,000,000-a-year backwoods bonanza that could have been far bigger had he ever branched beyond tiny (pop. 4,000) Freeport, Me. But Bean liked his sportsman's supply business the way it was. "I get three good meals a day," he once said, "and I can't eat four...