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...skeleton, 6 ft.-5 in. Ewell Blackwell. He looked remarkably like the National League's best pitcher, putting the mighty St. Louis Cardinals to bed with only three hits. In the American League, Detroit's curly-haired pride & joy, Lefty Hal Newhouser, began earning his $60,000-a-year salary first 'time out, letting the Browns down with just four hits and no sign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Batter Up! | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

...came without warning, Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler's first decisive action in two years as baseball's $50,000-a-year czar. Leo The Lip, struck almost silent, let out only two words, "For what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Exit Leo | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Harry D. White, 54, one of the architects of Bretton Woods, quit his tax-free $17,500-a-year job as U.S. executive director on the International Monetary Fund. White said that he wanted to enter private business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Swim | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...York, officials at the International Beauty Show figured that the U.S. woman's face depreciates at an $85-a-year clip, reasoned that she should be able to deduct facial repair costs from her income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 14, 1947 | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...many months, Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson had been wanting to retire. The reason was simply that he was gradually going broke on his $12,000-a-year salary, which failed to cover entertaining on the scale required by his job. When Secretary Marshall took over, Acheson had consented to stay on only with the promise that he would be able to return to his law practice by July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: After Acheson | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

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