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...reason is that the Sun-Times diligently recruits promising staffers, pushes them ahead-and loses many to bigger jobs elsewhere. Two more specific reasons are: brilliant, blustery Executive Editor Milburn ("Pete") Akers, 57, as famed for his highhandedness in a rage as for his openhandedness with a raise or bonus; and big (6 ft. i in., 250 Ibs.), bluff Managing Editor Thomas F. (for Fox) Reynolds, 46, whose barracks-square bellow has earned him the nickname of "Boom-Boom...
...bone and capitalize on it." Last week Dinah almost got knocked off-camera by a playful poke in the ribs from Guest Star Jimmy Durante, but Dinah's ham bone was up to it; gasping with laughter, she bounced back to make it seem a small bonus in an hour of unpremeditated fun. Week to week, just such spontaneity fuses with a haunting vocal talent to make blonde (since 1944) Dinah Shore the nicest musical treat...
...bonus choice, given to one team a year in an order determined by lot, came to the Cardinals by fortunate coincidence at a time when their quarterbacks were in desperately short supply. So they picked Hill for their bonus, knowing that they could also draft Crow, an asset for any team, however rich in halfbacks...
...player who has put in four years of minor-league ball is now eligible for drafting (i.e., hiring) by any major-league club. Under the old rule, major-league owners of farm clubs could leave employees in the minors subject only to their own call. Promising rookies hired as "bonus babies" will no longer have to ride major-league benches but can be sent to the minors for seasoning...
...watch the government bust a strike because anyone who works for the government or a public commission just has no right to strike. The public interest must be served. The welfare of the state comes first. So the City will break the strike with the law and with the bonus. And you can watch the state bust a strike, and we haven't seen that in a long time...