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Black is so generous with his 1,000 employees, whose personnel manager is onetime Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinson, that he gives them 10% of his profits as a Christmas bonus. But his big-scale generosity began in 1957, when his chief company auditor contracted Parkinson's disease, joining 1,500,000 other U.S. victims. Black promptly launched the Parkinson's Disease Foundation. He has given the foundation $250,000-just part of the total $1,000,000 that he had already given to medical causes before his outright gift to Columbia...
...Point Anne, Ont. By the time he was 14, he looked so good just playing junior-league hockey in Belleville, Ont. that he caught the eye of a touring Black Hawk scout, who reserved the likely prospect for Chicago by signing him to an option contract for a bonus so small that he now says: "I'm ashamed to mention it." Pro hockey is one of the toughest of all sports, but Hull revels in its body contact, can fend for himself so well in the mayhem that he has lost only two teeth in three seasons. In fact...
Trees & Holes. Hulet's hunting is a happy blend of avocation and vocation. He is a professional who is paid $475 a month (plus a $25 bonus for every kill) by Rayonier, Inc. to hunt black bears on 600 sq. mi. of forest land. Though timbermen have only recently realized it, the black bear is a major threat to lumbering. Hungry bears strip the bark from young Douglas fir trees to get at the sweet sap. One bear can damage 1.200 trees in a single season, and foresters estimate that bears annually destroy 100 trees for every one destroyed...
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...
...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...