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...gracefully into and out of today's cars. "They write asking why my skirt never rides up. It's a simple matter of placing more weight on the calves than on the thighs, as women usually do." Another bouncy blonde, Mary Dean, has reduced her $30,000-a-year job to a neat formula: "It is most important not to think of yourself. All you should be interested in is the package you're selling...
...will keep pace with the growth and hopes of India's population. Telling his followers that "it will take many five-year plans before we can bring about a Socialist society," Nehru realistically last week persuaded parliamentary hotheads to reject a measure which would clamp a $5,000-a-year ceiling on income. "Socialism does not mean a dead level of poverty," he snapped...
Erstwhile Harvard undergraduate Lenny Ross may have turned his $100,000 "Big Surprise" into "The Big Mistake" yesterday. When John A. Kaye, president of Stanwood Oil, offered ten year-old Ross a $2500-a-year scholarship to the Wharton School of Finance, the quiz kid, he turned it down, explaining that he wanted to go to Harvard...
...Thomas E. Stakem Jr., 48, a career civil service man, was picked by President Eisenhower for a $15,000-a-year seat on the three-man Federal Maritime Board, regulator of merchant shipping routes and subsidies. He succeeds Joseph G. Minetti, who was appointed to the Civil Aeronautics Board. The first Government career man ever to serve on the maritime unit, Stakem worked his way through college and law school in Washington, D.C. as a $900-a-year clerk in the U.S. Patent Office. He joined the FBI in 1934, quit nine years later to head investigations of skulduggery...
...account he coined the phrase "Bulova Watch Time." For Eversharp, Inc. he invented radio's $64 Question, saw the sum of money gain such renown that TV's current $64,000 Question pays him a royalty. He found a midget bellhop, assigned him the $20,000-a-year job of shrilling "Call for Philip Morris!" By 1952, with an annual billing of $50 million, Biow Co. ranked as the eighth biggest U.S. advertising agency...