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William Egan, 44, Governor. Alaska-born and a Valdez grocer, Bill Egan served in both houses of the territorial legislature, once offered to solve Alaska's woman shortage by proposing a $50-a-year tax on unmarried females. He is an airplane pilot, has worked as a cannery laborer and a truck driver, made his highest marks as president, chief parliamentarian and major cohesive agent of the 75-day Territorial Constitutional Convention in 1955-56, won the powerful governorship, with its broad powers of appointment, from Territorial Senator John Butrovich by nearly 10,000 votes...
Collins, Renwick and Stanley pioneered commercial TV in Britain in the day when the nation was generally against commercial TV on principle. Led by Collins, who walked out of a $10,400-a-year job as a BBC-TV program director, because his bosses were too stuffy, the three managed to push through the Television Act that established commercial TV, set up four TV studios to broadcast...
Despite a Congressman's $22,500-a-year salary plus expense allowance, the personal expenses of district pulse taking, of meeting and knowing people, have forced the Chamberlains to put a $10,000 mortgage on their East Lansing home. Beyond that, Chamberlain figures he will spend $20,000 before his 1958 campaign is over, and he is raising it with a "Bucks for Chuck" drive, exchanging elephant-outlined cuff links for contributions of more than...
Democrat, Too. The fast-stepping financing required by such production costs is second nature to Stevens, who quit the University of Michigan as a sophomore when his family was short of cash, seven years later boasted a $50,000 bank account and a $25,000-a-year income from Detroit real estate deals. After a wartime hitch in the Navy, merely making money was not enough for Stevens, and he drifted into Detroit's Drama Guild. Before long, he bought his way onto Broadway, joined the board of ANTA, then became a member of the Playwrights' Company...
...encouraging major industries to expand and recruiting new ones from outstate. They had long been scared off by an outdated and complicated patchwork of tax laws. Hodges called for a major tax reform to help business. Though opponents howled that he wanted to hand businessmen a $7,000,000-a-year tax windfall, Hodges got his bill passed in 1957. While it trimmed state revenues by $2,000,000 the first year, it also brought in new companies. The day the tax bill passed, Allied-Kennecott Titanium Corp. announced a new $40 million, soo-man plant for Wilmington. Fortnight later...