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...having a fielder's glove custom-made for Joe Di Maggio III, aged 4^. Said he: "It's an exact copy of mine, but small. It will cost as much as mine but that's all right [since he makes a $43,500-a-year salary, Di Mag could well afford it]. Most kids have skimpy little gloves and I don't want him to have to use one of those." Di Mag even knows the time the train gets him into Manhattan's Penn Station from Baltimore, spring's last exhibition stop. Says...
...Signed a bill bestowing permanent rank and a $5,000-a-year bonus upon Generals of the Army George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Henry H. Arnold and Fleet Admirals William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King and Chester W. Nimitz...
...most important U.S. Bretton Woods official will be the president of the Bank. Leading candidate for the $30,000-a-year job was Lewis Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. and an old crony of Fred Vinson's. A onetime Democratic Congressman from Arizona, and U.S. Budget Director, he had quit the New Deal in protest against its spending policies. His appointment would be a sop to conservative Democrats...
Ruhe's $3,000,000-a-year business, founded in Germany in 1830, sickened during the war. But Heinz Ruhe, great grandson of the founder, kept the business going by bringing in small South American animals and birds, including quetzals, almost worth their weight in gold ($500 apiece). Other animal dealers imported "essential" monkeys for laboratory use. (The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis alone bought some 8,000 monkeys a year, at $20 a head...
...Angeles municipal judge he acted, off the bench, with unjudicial sprightliness, marched in parades to protest prohibition. Finally, fearing to become a "political eunuch," he resigned his $10,000-a-year seat on the bench, got elected to the State Senate...