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...Forever? Considering his $75,000-a-year salary, Spahn's left arm is the most costly appendage in baseball, but he treats it as if he had found it at a fire sale. Some sculptor is undoubtedly already carving a bust of him for the Hall of Fame, but Spahn does not think he is ready for the museum yet. "I'd like to win 400 games," he says. Only two pitchers-Walter Johnson and Cy Young-ever managed that. To win his 400, Spahn would need four more 20-game seasons. By then he would...
...born in turn-of-the-century Newtonbrook, Ont., now swallowed up by an expanding Toronto. The second son of an itinerant $700-a-year Methodist minister, Pearson likes to say: "We were rich in everything but money." His father, the Rev. Edwin Arthur Pearson, who was known to his congregations as "the baseball-bashing parson," taught his sons baseball, hockey, football, and a firm sense of Methodist duty. Lester also learned something about politics from his maternal grandfather, who lost every time he stood for Parliament...
...Demagogue & Playboy." Powell's record is a many-splendored thing. There is. for example, his Puerto Rican-born third wife. Yvette. 31, whom he married in 1960 when she was a $3,000-a-year clerk on his staff. She is now on his payroll as a $12,974 secretary, and still draws the salary though she spends almost all her time in their $45,000 beach home in Puerto Rico. The Internal Revenue Service claims that Powell still owes $41,015 in income tax and penalties for 1949-55. And Powell is one of the House...
...began last fall, when Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan, having investigated complaints that authority inspectors were shaking down licensees and applicants, ordered a grand jury investigation. The first witness called was Liquor Authority Chairman Martin Epstein, 70, a Brooklyn political hack who was appointed to his $24,000-a-year post by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1960. Epstein, a diabetic whose left leg was recently amputated, was carried before the grand jury on a stretcher. He refused to waive his immunity (a sort of backdoor way of taking the Fifth Amendment), which is grounds for dismissal under the state constitution...
...Liquor Authority, and it remained unclear as to just why the grand jury wanted to question him. In any event, he too refused to waive his immunity. Shortly before that, he resigned not only from his Republican Party post but from his state jobs as $17,000-a-year vice chairman of the New York State Thruway Authority and un-salaried chairman of the Lake George Parkway Commission...