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...Reporter Neil Addington, during a discussion of a $221,000 appropriation bill for the National Guard of New Mexico (4,000 officers and men), was the evasiveness with which officials who had drawn up the budget answered lawmakers' questions about such standout items as a $14,000-a-year telephone bill. Though the legislature had been setting new records for parsimony, it cut less than $5,000 from the total requested by the Guard...
...courtroom that he was going to call a teamster meeting in Chicago this week to decide his "future activities in the union." It seemed that, with discredited Dave Beck scheduled to bow out in September, Jimmy Hoffa was about ready to run openly for Beck's $50,000-a-year job as president of the nation's biggest labor union (1,400,000 members...
...summer season's most fetching musical offering proved last week to be also its weightiest serving of social significance. The program: the Nat "King" Cole Show, starring the tall, courtly $500,000-a-year troubadour who has played the world's plushiest nightspots and sold a staggering 50 million records. Last fall NBC gave 38-year-old Cole a 15-minute weekly spot, making him the first of U.S. show business' numerous and talented Negroes to star as host of his own TV network show. Launching a new weekly series (Tuesday, 10 p.m. E.D.T.), the network last...
...lawsuit against the Lutheran Werners. Werner and daughter Mary Louise, they said, had lured Leland away from his faith and his family; they had enticed him to Milwaukee in Werner's private plane, given him a $75-a-month allowance, promised him a $25,000-a-year job in the family ironworks. "Werner's influence," the suit contends, "destroyed the natural affection the son had for his parents" and deprived them of "their only hopes for solace, affection, companionship and comfort during their declining years...
Finding the People. Harry Belafonte is currently one of the briskest-selling items in show business. He has signed a ten-year, $10,000-a-year contract with RCA Victor, is negotiating a three-picture deal with 20th Century-Fox and a contract with NBC to do four TV spectaculars a year for five years. He has also teamed up with Ed Murrow to produce a See It Now show on the quiet pools of native culture that have survived the intrusions of modern life, e.g., remote hamlets of the Appalachians, tiny islands off the Georgia coast. But whatever else...