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...Tougher Guy. Cott's $35,000-a-year salary is high, but he feels he earns it. Most of WNBC's little stunts, including the tape-recorded telephone horror, he thinks up himself ("Lots of people have good ideas, but they don't know what to do with them"). The rest he whips together from staffers' suggestions: "I have great faith in the creative aspects of people. Mostly I have to fight with them to make them as good as I think they are, and that makes me a tough guy sometimes. If they...
...Government employee, Stephen G. Benit Jr., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Worth on charges of taking $1,750 in bribes from an Oklahoma grain-elevator company. Yet the committee found that Benit was given a $4,575-a-year job at OPS after being dismissed by CCC. Two other employees, in the Kansas City office, showed "official favoritism" toward Houston Texas' Lone Star Co., awarded it a contract even though its bid was higher than others submitted...
...last summer, President Elmer Holmes Bobst of the Warner-Hudnut drug and cosmetic company phoned the head of Maltine Co., $3,000,000-a-year maker of drugs. "How about lunch today?" he asked. Replied Maltine's James Chilcott: "I'm just about to take off on a fishing trip. Is it really important?" Answered Bobst: "I just want to talk to you about buying your company...
Bestseller at 58. In the meantime, Roosevelt gave Robinson practical help in the form of a $2,000-a-year sinecure with the Customs Bureau. Robinson never quite knew what his duties were, and in 1909, when incoming Taft appointees demanded that he perform them, he resigned. But he was never again reduced to a mean struggle for subsistence. His verse flowed out increasingly in long dramatic poems, such as Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, written around the Arthurian legends. In time, he won three Pulitzer Prizes (1922, 1925, 1927), lived to see Tristram become such a bestseller in 1927 that...
...Circuit Court of Appeals, reversing a lower court ruling, found that Campbell was properly discharged. He can still appeal to the Supreme Court, thereby add substantially to the $500,000 which, it is estimated, the Government has had to spend in trying to separate him from a $4,400-a-year...