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...keep legal eagles hungry, law firms are taking some of the money that goes to partners--who typically earn a seven-figure "draw"--and redirect it to associates, who do much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations...
...conductor's health: there have been persistent rumors of heart trouble. Despite Reiner's assurance that he would try to set up a six-week European tour in the spring of 1960, Chicago papers set up a clamor: "For the first time," wrote Critic Roger Dettmer in the American, "Chicago might have gained a reputation for something else than Prohibition Era hoodlums, gang wars and civic graft. Fritz Reiner owes Chicago an explanation...
...tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called for. Next day Critic Roger Dettmer wrote in the American that Starker "has grown from an important cellist to an incomparable one," and the rest of the press gave echo...
During its investigation of income-tax collectors, the King committee looked with heavy-breathing suspicion on the affairs of a New York Internal Revenue agent named William H. Dettmer Jr. If he hadn't taken bribes, he was asked, how had he managed, year after year, to make from $1,300 to $1,800 more than his Government salary? Dettmer gave the stock answer: he had a system for playing the races. Dettmer was immediately suspended. But last week he was back at work again. The bureau reported, in tones of some admiration, that Dettmer actually did have...
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