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...special sessions court this week Gambler Erickson meekly entered a plea of guilty on all counts (maximum penalty on each: $500 fine and one year in jail). But a trial might have been worse. Hogan's men had found that a big chunk of his $100,000-a-year income came from Florida's Colonial Inn, a gambling enterprise he shared with Detroit gamblers, New York Gangsters Meyer Lansky and "Jimmy Blue Eyes" Alo, Brooklyn's Joe Adonis. Erickson would not want to get those fellows into trouble...
...peddling the byproduct of his work as a $15,000-a-year servant of the people, the Senator had not actually broken any laws. Congressmen often get fees for making speeches and writing magazine articles. Members of Congress are no more limited in moneymaking ventures than other citizens, except that they may not take fees for lobbying or dealing with Government agencies. The rest is up to their moral judgment. McCarthy had raised a question of propriety-and his fancy author's fee was enough to raise eyebrows...
...company has expanded and dividends have increased, thanks partly to the employees' interest in making the company more successful, the payoffs to retiring employees have jumped sharply. Sample payoff last year: a $4,600-a-year clerk who had contributed $3,561 to the fund in 34 years got $95,626. The technical drawback to the plan is that most of the employees' pension eggs are in one basket. But under the circumstances, Sears and its employees are not worried: they do not know where they could find a more productive basket...
...have a happy ending, William W. Remington's seemed to have had one. Two years ago, Remington, a boyish-looking Department of Commerce economist, was accused by ex-Communist Courier Elizabeth Bentley of passing wartime secrets to her espionage ring. He was promptly suspended from his $10,330-a-year job. Then the top U.S. loyalty review board studied his case, sent him back to work with $5,000 back pay and a clean bill of health-although his duties had been juggled so that he was burdened with few security decisions. When ex-Spy Bentley repeated her charge...
...seat," George F. Zook used to say of his $18,000-a-year job as president of the powerful American Council on Education. "Every once in a while somebody gets pretty cross. But if a man hasn't the courage to say what he thinks he shouldn't take this job. He'd be just a mollycoddle...