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After two months of hunting, Harry S. Truman was still looking for a man-any man-to be his price stabilizer. The qualifications he set up for the $17,500-a-year job were modest enough. The President stipulated only that the candidate have the "guts" to take...
Last week, to nobody's surprise, Editor Fritchey quit his hot spot. But to the amazement of many a Washington newsman, Fritchey hopped on to a still hotter spot. He became the $11,200-a-year head of public information for the Department of Defense, a job that has gone begging for ten months...
...began only a few months after Goslin took over his $17,500-a-year job in 1948. Most Pasadenans conceded that their schools would need some streamlining, but some oldliners were hardly ready for the type of streamlining Goslin proposed. When he asked for pre-season teacher-training, his board voted it down as frivolous and too expensive. When he suggested that Pasadena set up summer-school camps, citizens howled that the scheme smacked of collectivism. When he backed a 50% boost in the school tax, Pasadena thundered "no" at the polls by a vote...
George Marshall did not wait for President Truman's formal appointment. He announced to the press that Anna Rosenberg, 48, would take the big, pressure-blown, $15,000-a-year job of Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of manpower and personnel. No woman had ever before held such a job in the manly precincts of the Pentagon. But Anna Rosenberg, said George Marshall, was "one of the country's outstanding experts-I believe the outstanding expert-on the subject of manpower." She succeeds bumbling Paul Griffith, who owed his job to Louis Johnson (both were ex-national...
...clawhammer coat and cowboy boots to marry Roy Rogers and Movie Actress Dale Evans. They didn't like his cross-country jaunting in a private plane to speak at women's clubs and businessmen's conventions, an activity that gave him a tidy $40,000-a-year income in lecturing fees. Alexander paid no attention...