Word: collected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston, the retired president of a large corporation made a bet that he could collect compensation, told the unemployment office he had been retired only because of the company's age limit. Since the unemployment office failed to find him any work in his field, bossing corporations, he collected $18 a week for 18 weeks...
...Club 55" is showbiz lingo for the Hollywood unemployment office, and the attraction is $55 a week, taxfree. Any out-of-work Hollywood toiler, even if he earned a quarter of a million in his last picture and is scheduled to start on a new one next month, can collect his $55 a week during the interim...
Show business people, however, display a special affinity for unemployment compensation. As soon as Nanette Fabray finished her starring stint in the Broadway musical Mr. President, she headed for the Manhattan unemployment office to collect her $52 a week. In Hollywood, so many notables line up at Club 55 that movie people refer to it as "Central Casting." Says Chick Chandler, longtime character actor and Club 55 regular: "If you wanted to cast a very fine picture, from producers to hairdressers to extras, you could do it all by standing here for a week...
Drawing Guffaws. Actors Michael Wilding, Fernando Lamas and Ricardo Montalban have all appeared at the club to collect at one time or another; under California law they could keep coming back for 26 weeks in a row, make one well-paid movie appearance, and then begin again. Adolphe Menjou is a frequent visitor. After completing her part in Burke's Law, Rebecca Welles drove to Club 55 in her $10,000 Facel Vega. William Beaudine, director of TV's Lassie, often works one week out of three, collects his compensation the other two. After a filming...
...went on into this week, with indications that a compromise might emerge. U Thant was reported ready to visit the Borneo territories, without waiting for General Assembly approval, and prepared to make his "ascertainment" without a formal referendum. Sukarno, switching from intransigence to blithe unconcern, took time off to collect an honorary degree (his 21st) from the University of the Philippines, to pursue a pretty Malayan correspondent, and to demonstrate for photographers the intricacies of the lenso, a sort of static Indonesian twist...