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Next to the Supreme Court Justices, the most influential judges in the U.S. are those who sit on famed "CCA-2"-the U.S. court of appeals for the second circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont). Last month Chief Judge Thomas Swan retired, at 75, from his $17,500-a-year lifetime seat on that bench. Last week President Eisenhower was getting ready to fill the job-the first important judicial appointment of his Administration. The choice lay between a candidate with top-drawer political credentials and one carrying the blue-ribbon endorsement of leaders of the second circuit's bench...
...Vienna, 300 miles off, so that the censors might listen in. A staff of nearly 1,000 censors stuck their collective noses into letters from Vienna and the Russian zone, and into all telegrams, wireless and Teletype messages going abroad. Worse, the Austrians had to pay the $500,000-a-year cost of all this censorious attention...
...will be racing against the clock rather than against other horses. There, if the horse can beat the world record for time trials of 1:55, set in 1938 by Billy Direct, Wagner believes Hi-Lo's Forbes will be worth far more than the $50,000-a-year stud fees he now potentially merits as a full-time stud...
...Bureau Federation, sixth biggest U.S. farm cooperative. Lincoln is going into housing as zealously as he first sold Ohio's individualistic farmers on the co-op movement and, later, on founding a variety of noncooperative corporations originally backed by co-op money. Today he is the $75,000-a-year president of the Farm Bureau Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and eight subsidiary companies, including Peoples Development Co., which is building Lincoln Village. Their total assets...
...founder of the weekly Kiplinger Washington Letter, Willard Monroe Kiplinger, 62, has built up a $4,400,000-a-year business by "filling gaps" in news reporting. Besides the Washington Letter, "Circulated Privately to Businessmen" (at $18 a year). Kiplinger and his staff turn out a fortnightly tax letter, a fortnightly farm letter, a monthly magazine Changing Times. Last week Kiplinger began filling a fifth gap. "Kip" had discovered that Europe gravely misunderstands U.S. economics, politics, and motives. His answer: a new newsletter. Overseas Postscript, to "explain U.S. trends to foreign businessmen...