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...British Laborites ever so loudly damned the rich as the late Aneurin Bevan, who once ticked off the landed gentry as "vermin." Supplementing his own $4,900-a-year salary as an M.P. with writing, ex-Coal Miner Bevan spent his last years on a 52-acre farm in Buckinghamshire, taking up with delight many of the ways of his erstwhile class enemies, while sticking to his old convictions. When Nye Bevan's estate was probated last week, it was totted up at $65,766.80-a tidy amount to accumulate in tax-burdened Britain...
...signed on the dotted line as president of the National Association of Broadcasters was Florida's genial Demo cratic Governor LeRoy Collins whose $22,500-a-year term expires in January. After his effective chairing of the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles earlier this year, Collins hinted that he was open for an ambassadorial or Cabinet post if the Democrats win. Best guess as to why Collins would choose October's birdinhand instead of waiting for the iffy outcome of November's election: $100,000 a year...
...fame for courage and reason during the city's 1957 segregationist riots. Two years later Ashmore went to work for the Fund for the Republic, was commissioned by the Ford Foundation to study how to make the press more self-responsible. Last week he took the $50,000-a-year job as editor in chief of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. As EB's 19th-editor, Ashmore replaces Walter Yust, who died last February after 22 years...
...Britain against him. But Thomas Albert Cronin could scarcely care less, at least for the moment. Last week he was in the U.S., appearing on Jack Paar's TV show, and wending his leisurely way to Florida, where he is promised another palace job: as a $17,000-a-year host at a jai alai palace in Dania, a tourist center north of Miami...
...union members). A grand jury also found that three other board members were guilty of impropriety, suggested that they resign. One did; the other two face ouster suits. Dan Schlafly has also gone to court to oust another building commissioner, who went from board member to the $15,000-a-year commissioner's job, a maneuver that Schlafly considers poor policy...