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Undisputed king of Hollywood at the time was Louis B. Mayer, who was convinced that "those Selznick boys will come to no good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that...
...curt and controversial departure, John L. Burns nearly four years ago was suddenly out as president of sprawling RCA, even though his contract for the $200,000-a-year job still had more than five years to run. Burns has never given a reason-and neither has RCA. In the succeeding months-and years-he got the customary offers from other companies anxious to hire a top-level manager, but turned them all down. "There are not," he said, "many jobs available on that level." Burns largely dropped out of sight; he became a private consultant to several companies, served...
Last week Burns made quite a comeback: he was named the $150,000-a-year chairman and chief executive of Cities Service Co., will at year's end take over when President and Chief Executive J. Ed. Warren retires. Burns's background in the oil business is scanty, but he has other attributes to offer: he holds a doctorate in metallurgy from Harvard, worked his way from laborer to wire-division head at Republic Steel, became a partner in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton and an adviser to 30 blue-chip corporations before joining...
...Mississippi State University on an athletic scholarship. He is still a physical culturist, enjoys performing deep knee-bends while standing on one foot. He left school after one year, became a city garbage-truck driver at $30 a week. He worked his way up to the $25,000-a-year job of sanitation commissioner. It was from that post that Bob Wagner, in 1961, appointed him deputy mayor, then picked him as a running mate. In New York, the city council president is something like a vice president. What Wagner mainly wanted was a No. 2 man who would take...
...Mileage." The son of a Pennsylvania coal miner, Morgan is a physician with a $45,000-a-year practice back in the mining community of Fredericktown, Pa., to which he commutes on weekends. "To me," says Morgan, "taking a foreign aid bill through is just like going to the operating room. Many critics say Morgan uses a bedside manner. Well, I make very few enemies in committee or on the floor. I use kindness, and I get a lot of mileage...