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...gloves from his secretaries. It was an appropriate gift. Two weeks earlier, in the Sulgrave Club, he had been attacked by Senator Joe McCarthy. Last week, in the lobby of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, Columnist Pearson was punched again. His attacker: Washington Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, $75,000-a-year lobbyist for Franco's Spain, who has been one of Pearson's prime targets in the past few months. In detailed columns, Pearson charged Clark with using undue influence to get Maine's Senator Owen Brewster and Brooklyn's Congressman Eugene Keogh to sponsor...
...During strikes Phil Murray cuts off his own $25,000-a-year salary and the pay of all his officers and organizers...
Whether he likes it or not, the President of Ireland ("The Man in the Park" to his constituents) must stand aloof from the rough & tumble of partisan politics. For seven years, benign, learned Sean O'Kelly has held the $32,000-a-year job and his tongue as well. It came hard to a man who was once as outspoken ("We'll whip John Bull yet! . . .") in the cause of Irish freedom as any in the land. Last month, as his first seven-year term drew to a close, O'Kelly faced the privilege granted...
...Mutual Broadcasting System's Board Chairman Thomas F. O'Neil, who is also a vice president of General Tire & Rubber Co., took over Mutual's presidency when Frank White, 52, resigned his $100,000-a-year job after a disagreement over a new contract. General Tire, owner of the Don Lee and Yankee networks, got majority stock control of Mutual when its networks merged last year with two Mutual stations in New York City...
Straight Corp., Ltd. He soon found himself controlling 23 airlines, including Western, busiest in the British Isles. Straight, who was just 34 when he took on the ?5,000-a-year BOAC job, used his private-enterprising know-how in the Socialist government's airline. He started lopping the payroll, soon trimmed the staff from 24,000 to 16,000. He hacked off some of BOAC's worst money-losing runs, began junking obsolete planes and, like a practical businessman, went after the best planes to replace them even if they didn't happen to be British...