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Tennist Alice Marble quit her $1-a-year body-building job with OCD, explained that since Pearl Harbor it had grown from a part-time to a "more than fulltime" job, had kept her from earning the living she has to make...
Wendell Willkie was elected chairman of the board of 20th Century-Fox, but said he had no intention of moving to California, was still simply the firm's attorney. He fills without salary the $130,000-a-year job resigned by Joseph M. Schenck after his conviction last year for income tax fraud, because Schenck was "in temporary difficulties...
Lili Damita divorced Errol Flynn, charged him with "paying more attention to his yachts than me." She got custody of their infant son, half interest in some $150,000 worth of property, $1,500 a month as long as the actor stays in the $180,000-a-year class, a minimum of $9,000 a year if he drops below...
...Council averred that Julian was junked because of "financial stringency owing to the war." But London's scientific circles, knowing that Huxley had already accepted a 50% cut in his $6,800-a-year salary, had even offered to work for nothing if necessary, sniffed a more rooted reason. The Council headed by Lord Halifax's brother-in-law, the Earl of Onslow, has long disapproved of Huxley's liberal politics (frequently propounded in newspaper articles), his outside activities (weekly appearances on the BBC's popular Brain Trust program) and his blasphemous innovations...
Carl F. Zeidler, tousle-haired, 34-year-old singing "boy mayor" of Milwaukee, "the Personality Kid" who beat Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor for 24 years, in 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion...