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...course, like many another man of ideas, he had his troubles. As early as 1946, the association's financial officer, a big ex-Sing Sing guard named Frank A. Mott, began complaining about Purcell's methods. But the mayor's pal, Frank Murphy-$12,000-a-year chief of staff of the department-fixed that. He sent down an order which forced Mott to work during the hours when association meetings were being held. Mott also began getting threatening telephone calls...
...Ministry of Food, dickering for a year's Argentine meat supply, refused nine months ago to pay a ?5,000,000-a-year increase asked by Argentina. The Labor government called it "blackmail." The Argentines stopped shipping, and meat is piling up in Argentina...
...background of Tchaikovsky, they eavesdropped on Cary Grant and Actress Betsy Drake (his wife both in radio and life), reminiscing about their courtship and honeymoon. Producer-Writer Nat Wolff (who is getting "dialogue assists" from Actress Drake) wants to picture "a very attractive couple in the $25,000-a-year class...the kind of people we'd like most to be." The show will contain "no platforms, no politics, no message." Nothing, in fact, but a little spicy innuendo and a succession of comic crises based on domestic misunderstandings...
...arms production rolling, Mobilization Boss Charles E. Wilson and his straw boss, Defense Production Administrator William H. Harrison, are calling scores of businessmen to Washington. President Truman, who had once damned $1-a-year businessmen, now was glad to get all the business brains he could. Among those called...
...spree in history." In New York, Scott fought with waiters, and Zelda danced on dinner tables. They went wading in public fountains and tried to undress at the Scandals. No matter how much he wrote, Fitzgerald was continually in debt. By 1924, he was living at a $36,000-a-year clip. Two years earlier, he had published The Beautiful and Damned, the story of a rich idler's moral collapse. It had the same faults as Paradise, and most sound critics, Wilson included, gave it the raps it deserved. But his short stories, some of them excellent, sold...