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...miles. These sparing habits have gained him a reputation as a close man with a buck, whether it is his or the state's. He is not a poor man. He is said to be worth about half a million dollars, with an income, including his $12,000-a-year salary as governor and dividends from the Bloomington Pantograph stock and other property, of about $50,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Sir Galahad & the Pols | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

...Williams, the $125,000-a-year outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, had a salary reduction notice last week. Ted was fishing in Florida when he got the news: the U.S. Marine Corps was calling him and a few hundred other aviators back to duty. On April 2, two weeks before the baseball season opens, Ted will report for his physical. If he passes, he will start getting a captain's base pay ($356 a month) and probably go to work at his old wartime job: teaching cadets how to fly. Airman Williams, an indiscreet talker when he gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Call to Arms | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...that his wife was seen sporting a mink coat at the very time that mink became suddenly unfashionable on Democratic women's shoulders. Baynton said that the coat was merely borrowed for two months from the wife of his old friend Harold Horowitz, whom Baynton made $26,000-a-year president of E. Leitz, Inc. (Leica cameras), another OAP enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Super Gravy Train? | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Wonderful Ogre." Though the State Department is an enticing target to all Congressmen, Mrs. Shipley, head of its passport division, is the most invulnerable, most unfirable, most feared and most admired career woman in Government. Starting as a $1,200-a-year State Department clerk in 1914, she graduated to her present post in 1928. She brought with her a sharp insight into bureaucracy and the ways of bureaucrats. Her division grew amazingly (it now has 240 employees, six branch offices, has issued and renewed over 250,000 passports this year), and yearly worked wonders of economy and speedy service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Sorry, Mrs. Shipley | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...kept out of Hearstpaper affairs, except as a $1-a-year adviser (TIME, Nov. 5). The first sign of her advice: when her friend Sonja Henie opened her ice show on the West Coast, the San Francisco Examiner ran feature stories for four straight days, the Call-Bulletin headlined a rave review: SONJA'S ICE SHOW WINS HEART...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Shaking the Empire | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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