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...Schwab, 77, board chairman of Bethlehem Steel Corp.; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. From counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson...
...occasion was his signing, just before leaving Washington for Hyde Park, a bill setting up a $10,000-a-year fiscal-&-personnel manager for the Federal judiciary. Present at the signing was Homer Stille Cummings* who, as Attorney General, included a similar court officer in the tricky bill which he wrote for Mr. Roosevelt in 1937 to New-Dealize the Supreme Court by adding six new Justices, which Congress indignantly refused to do. After Mr. Roosevelt signed, Mr. Cummings observed that this measure "puts the capsheaf" on Mr. Roosevelt's long fight for court reform. "Every objective the President...
...have confused Philip Orlovsky, onetime clothing workers union official (now in the textile-shrinking business), and Irving (Isadore) Penn, 42, royalties manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., music publishers. A jolly homebody with no interest outside of his family (wife & two children), music publishing (he was up to $4,200-a-year from office boy after 22 years) and the New York Giants. Mr. Penn stood 5 ft. 8 in., weighed 240 lb.; Mr Orlovsky, 5 ft. 6 in., 260 lb. Each used to leave home for work about...
...pride the experts pointed to the youngster's record so far this season: 14 victories and only three defeats (better than any other major-leaguer), 119 strikeouts in 149 innings (36 more than his nearest rival). Last year Feller won 17 games and lost eleven. Last week even the most conservative prognosticator predicted that the 20-year-old, $20,000-a-year Indian, who has only recently stopped calling his teammates "Mister," will win 25 games this year (some...
...flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth $1,000,000) as an associate producer. Hollywood guessed that Capra, whose $350,000-a-year contract with Columbia...