Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About that $1,000 "bonus" the University of Pennsylvania "bestowed" on 20 of its outstanding faculty members recently, "reportedly the first such ... by a U.S. college or university" [Oct. 5]: it may well have been the most, but it wasn't the first. In 1957 the Pennsylvania State University presented special checks ranging from $300 to $500 to seven members of its faculty...
...University of Pennsylvania (enrollment: 16,000) last week found a more substantial reward for good teachers than a pat on the back. To each of 20 faculty members, for excellence in undergraduate teaching, went a check for $1,000, reportedly the first such bonus bestowed by a U.S. college or university...
...Cole's salary and bonus approach $300,000. He likes to spend it, lives in a palatial $250,000 stone-and-glass lakeside house, dresses in hand-needled $175 suits that have fancy cuffs on the sleeves. With Wife Esther, Son David, 22 (an engineering student at Michigan), and Daughter Martha, 18 (a freshman at Michigan State), he shares three boats, four Chevies (one for each member of the family) and five TV-sets (two in color), which Cole watches "only to see if I can sharpen up the Chevy commercials...
...meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four hours' handicap. Instead of using Storm's normal headsails, he hoisted a gigantic genoa jib that was fully 34 ft. at the foot, had an area of 716 sq. ft.-more than the regular mainsail and fore-triangle combined...
Harried Dodger officials have often wondered if the strong-armed kid from Brooklyn was worth the strain on their nerves. An architecture major at the University of Cincinnati, Koufax was signed as a $14,000 bonus baby at 19. In his second start, he struck out 14 Cincinnati Reds. But he soon developed streaks of harrowing wildness, last year led the league in wild pitches with 17 (but hit only one batter). Explains one Dodger coach: "When Koufax is wild, the ball not only is not near the plate-it's not near the batter...