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...York World-Telegram reporter, assigned to investigate the working conditions of Remington Rand's new $100,000-a-year Board Chairman Douglas Mac-Arthur, finally found the place, a "Tudor castle" on a 30-acre estate near Rowayton, Conn. He found the general comfortably settled in an Elizabethan-type 25-by-40-foot office. Asked how he liked his new job, the Old Soldier answered: "I'm doing fine, sir; I like it fine." Surprised at the presence of a reporter, President Rand asked if he had an appointment. "No," said the general, "he just crashed the gate...
...folksiness. His office door is never closed, and newsmen are privileged to wander in & out of his "goldfish bowl" (as he calls it); they listen in on state conferences. Soapy detests pomp and formality, sends his three youngsters to Lansing public schools. He lives well within his $22,500-a-year salary: there is only one maid to help Nancy run their rambling old house eight blocks from the capitol (Michigan does not provide an executive mansion). Frequently Soapy answers his own telephone...
...Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Ruml was chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank from 1941 to 1946. He is best known as the father of the pay-as-you-go tax plan. In 1942 Ruml began worrying about the problem of the $7,500-a-year Macy executive who was called into the Army on a salary of $50 a month. How could he pay his 1941 income taxes? Ruml proposed that everyone get out of debt to the Government by moving over to a pay-as-you-go basis. In 1943, Congress passed an amended...
...comfort-loving Hungarian expatriate who arrived in the U.S. 16 years ago with $200 in his pocket and a one-word vocabulary: okay. Since then he has enormously expanded both. By catering to the comfort of his rich clients, he has built up a $1,5OO,000-a-year business as designer of some of the nation's most luxurious showplaces. And in his fancy Beverly Hills showroom last week, he was volubly admiring the first samples of his latest commission: $1,000,000 worth of modern furniture to be manufactured in Europe...
...John T. Biggers, 28, a Negro who took his M.A. in art education at Pennsylvania State College, migrated to Texas in 1949 when he was offered a $6,000-a-year job at Houston's Texas Southern University and a chance to keep drawing his sad pictures of tired newsboys and harvesters...