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...since I was a young lawyer, I have wanted to be a judge," Connecticut's big, friendly Republican Senator Raymond Baldwin declared last week. Instead, his path had kept him in politics for 20 years. After three terms as governor of Connecticut, he passed up a $30,000-a-year job as vice president of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. to answer the party call again and make the race for the Senate...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
...Pitch. That was about as far as hot-tempered, brawling Leo Durocher dared to go, whatever the provocation. Baseball's $50,000-a-year Commissioner "Happy" Chandler already had two strikes on The Lip for past crimes and misdemeanors; another brawl would be strike three and out. In 1947, Chandler had suspended Durocher for the season for "conduct detrimental to baseball." Twice recently he had disciplined Lippy for minor offenses: for hiring Coach Fred Fitzsimmons when Fred's old club wasn't looking, and for a pre-season row with an umpire...
...Abner) Capp at the head table. But most of the 200 guests did not know the big, sandy-haired fellow in the place of honor. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, on his first visit to Manhattan in ten years, looked more like a small-town businessman than the $300,000-a-year creator of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip (Blondie), and the cartoonists' choice as best cartoonist of the year...
From the sidelines, Columnist Drew Pearson also threw some grit into Waltham's newly cleaned works. Waltham's new boss, John Hagerty, had left his $10,000-a-year job as Boston manager of the RFC to take the $30,000-a-year Waltham presidency. Since it was RFC which had lent Waltham $6,000,000 to pay debts and resume production, Pearson asked: "Did Waltham offer the lush salary to Hagerty because he deserved it, or as a reward for helping swing the RFC loan?" Retorted RFC: Hagerty did recommend the loan, but RFC headquarters in Washington...