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...a-year schoolteacher, $90,000 represents . . . practically the entire productive segment of his life span...
...Last week 29-year-old Betty Hutton was a $260,000-a-year movie star on the verge of her splashiest success. She was still going strong on the momentum she had picked up on the wrong side of the tracks. Her relentless determination to get to the top had flung her from speakeasies to street-singing to bandstands, then onto Broadway and into the startled public eye as the frenzied high priestess of a nameless chaos-with-music that has been wrongly called jitterbugging...
...decision, the U.S. court of appeals in Washington held that the Government's loyalty program-created two years ago by presidential order-is constitutional. Loser of the decision was Miss Dorothy Bailey, a slim, 39-year-old Uni versity of Minnesota graduate who was fired from her $8,000-a-year job in the U.S. Employment Service because President Truman's three-man Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable grounds" for believing she was "disloyal" to her Government...
Published by Manhattan's nonprofit American Museum of Natural History, which boasts that its 2,205,394 visitors last year just about equaled the baseball attendance at Yankee Stadium, Natural History pays its own $200,000-a-year way. This week, to celebrate its golden anniversary, Museum President F. Trubee Davison invited 100 top publishers and scientists to lunch amid the albatrosses and petrels in the hall of Oceanic Bird Life, and presented a medal for "faithfulness to natural law" to Amateur Naturalist Hoover...
...Safeway stores, clerks often see a slight, spectacled shopper who isn't a regular customer but looks vaguely familiar. The shopper is Lingan Alan Warren, 60, the $386,000-a-year president of Safeway who spends much of his time checking up on his stores by shopping like any housewife. Says he: "I'm just a customer like anyone else. If I ever forget that, I'm through...