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Most prominent defendant was dapper, scholarly Dr. Lewis Hart Marks, 64, president of American Hyalsol and a $35,000-a-year vice president of Publicker Industries Inc., biggest U.S. producer of industrial alcohol. U.S.-born (New Orleans) and U.S.-educated (Tulane and Johns Hopkins), Dr. Marks did medical research in Germany for many years before he turned businessman...
...shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
...civic conscience of Boston, like a goboon in a Scollay Square saloon, is a battered vessel. It was severely dented last November when Mayor James Michael Curley, a man with a mountainous contempt for public opinion, returned happily to his $20,000-a-year job after spending five months in prison for mail fraud. Since then, Boss Curley has given the vessel a few more kicks...
...went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court charged with attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...
...Three years ago, when he moved into A.C.S. , the society was run, says Bobst, "by fine people who weren't particularly qualified to carry on a business of that character." Bobst is qualified. He has been the $300,000-a-year president of Hoff-mann-LaRoche, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and is now president of the William R. Warner Co., Inc. and its cosmetic subsidiary, Richard Hudnut, Inc. He brought in new men, tightened up the organization, reduced costs from 4.7% of the amount collected in 1946 to 3.4% last year...