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...Frank ("Pop") Ivy: his $23,000-a-year job as coach of the American Football League's Houston Oilers, to onetime Passing Whiz Sammy Baugh-whom Ivy had hired as an assistant coach two weeks before. "This town just doesn't go for losers," explained Owner Bud Adams, whose Oilers won 17 games, lost 11 in Ivy's two seasons...
Fights & Friends. "You always play better when you got peace of mind," says Willie. But for most of the past three years, the Say-Hey Kid has not had much of that. In 1961, his ex-wife Marghuerite won a $15,000-a-year settlement (plus fees), and all during the 1962 season, her lawyer was diligently suing for payment. At one point, Willie's debts topped $100,000, and his lawyers recommended bankruptcy. That year, Mays led the league in home runs, batted .304-and collapsed from nervous exhaustion in the dugout in September. Starting the 1963 season...
...first woman to serve on the Commission, Mrs. Bunting will fill the final year of the term of retiring oil industrialist, Thomas E. Wilson, and will return to Radcliffe in June, 1965. She has been granted a year's leave of absence beginning this June by the Radcliffe College Council in order to assume her new $22,-500-a-year post...
Just who is Jack Valenti, the little man who's always there? Officially he is on the White House staff as a $20,000-a-year "special consultant." But to Lyndon Johnson he is much more. Said the President shortly after he took office...
...knew who was drunk. He knew who was out of town. He knew who was sleeping with whom. He influenced committee assignments. He influenced legislation. He came to be known as "the 101st Senator." And he indulged in some vast moonlighting schemes that helped him parlay his $19,612-a-year Government salary into a fortune...