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...Yankees were stepping into good jobs. Highest stepper was dark, barrel-chested, 30-year-old ex-Sergeant Joe McChester Carthy, Yank's managing editor for three years. Before the war he was a $40-a-week Boston sportswriter, later a racetrack pressagent. Recently he was offered and took a $26,000-a-year job as an editor of Hearst's Cosmopolitan...
When he took over his new $50,000-a-year job, new Czar Jackson carefully explained that he was not fronting for a lobby or pressure group. But traders did not think that his friendship with President Truman was a handicap...
...young flyers that Congress was exercised about.. The legislators noted that parachute pay and glider pay were kept under a $1,200-a-year ceiling, and wanted flight pay similarly regulated. Under the present system there were incongruities, e.g.: "Hap" Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until...
...Alan was hired by the Library of Congress as a $1,620-a-year assistant in charge of the Folk Song Archive. He sent song-collecting expeditions into Mexico and South America, to the reservations of the Six Nations Indians. He and his wife Elizabeth were married in Haiti, recorded voodoo rituals on their honeymoon. Today the Library has 25,000 songs on discs...
...DEAD LIE STILL - William L.Stuart -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Sam Talbot managed to be both a $30,000-a-year artist and a hard-drinking, indestructible private detective: "A big rough-look ing guy with dark hair. Good clothes...