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...Bela Gruner's lawyer last week told him that his ?120 bonus check for five and a half years' service with the British Army had arrived. Gruner sent for paper, made a will leaving his bonus to the Irgun Z-vai Leumi, the Jewish terrorist organization that considers itself at war with Britain. Then Gruner, in the blood-red uniform of a prisoner condemned to death, sat in his Jerusalem cell and waited for the British to make up their minds whether to hang...
Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...
...Yankees, a little too sure of themselves, offered only $75,000 for five years of football, a $10,000 bonus for signing, another $20,000 for two seasons of baseball. After two days of well-publicized thinking-it-over, Trippi called at Yankee headquarters and said: "I'm sorry . . . that's not enough." Charles Bidwell's Cardinals got him for an even $100,000 (for four years) and he was still free to peddle his baseball talents. A voice from football's faded past, that of Illinois' ex-Galloping Ghost Red Grange, spoke...
...board of directors of Diana Stores Corp. last week got an unusual shock. Diana's president, Harry Greenburg, turned down a bonus of $450,000. And he did not do it because of sky-high taxes...
...couple of weeks, and many dates later, La Rue told Pearl that if he could just get a picture of this loot with a powerful X-ray camera he had, he could run the dame in and collect a big bonus. By the time he dropped Pearl at her pink-curtained, $5-a-week room on Manhattan's grimy West Side, La Rue had asked how she would like to take the picture. Jobless, not-too-bright Pearl Lusk was thrilled...