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...Stars were strangers, of course. Donny ("Do Everything") Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...
Last week, just as practice for the 1966 season got under way, the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions were trying to cope with a mass training-camp holdout by veterans demanding pay increases that would put them on a par with untried bonus rookies. Among the balkers: All-N.F.L. Guards John Gordy and Ted Karras, Ends Darris McCord and Ron Kramer, Flanker Pat Studstill, and Defensive Back Bruce Maher. The Baltimore Colts were minus their two top pass receivers, Raymond Berry and Jimmy Orr, and the St. Louis Cardinals had two holdouts: Center Bob DeMarco and Split End Sonny...
...upwards of $27 million, Newhouse got the two papers, some choice downtown real estate consisting of a highly automated modern printing plant that he says is a "jewel" and, as an added bonus, the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle (circ. 10,050). The deal also included half-interest in Mobile's WKRG and WKRG-TV, which means that the FCC must give its approval before the bargain is finally sealed...
Married. Mamie Van Doren, 33, bosomy starlet (High School Confidential); and Lee Meyers, 19, $50,000 bonus pitcher (California Angels) still in the minors; she for the third time; in Boise, Idaho...
...Skill. Occasionally they all come together for a full day of lectures on the various aspects of newspapering. They are relatively well paid ($76 a week to start), and at the end of the summer most of them also get a bonus (from $100 to $2,000) to help handle the cost of their education. Not many of them come back to the Times permanently, but a hefty 50% stay in journalism. Which is all that Times Publisher-Editor Nelson Poynter is after. "I just think it's worthwhile perpetuating the breed," he says...