Word: fats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirty-two-year-old Jester Hackett claims he was born funny: "I was fat and I was from Brooklyn. That made me funny from the start." He is a veteran of the $5-a-night honky-tonks, the Catskills and the nightspots of Chicago. Miami and Las Vegas. He wanted to be a clown because of an early " 'feriority complexion," which he has since worked off in simple ways: settling down in New Jersey to a quiet family life (a wife and three-month-old son), playing golf, driving hot-rods at breakneck speeds. But a practical joke...
...Curtiss-Wright Corp., that he would surrender his $150,000-a-year job. Nance also gave up a long-term contract that would have paid him $200,000 a year by 1961 plus a guaranteed annual wage of $40,000 if he left. In return, Jim Nance got a fat unemployment compensation settlement. The deal, disclosed last week: a $286,000 trust fund, an additional $75,000 plus for salary through Jan. 31. He also took over a $600,000 life insurance policy which the company had helped support. The $286,000 will be paid beginning in 1966 over...
...from the bottom to the top. Unemployment was down to a bedrock 103,000, and workers were hard to find, notably for domestic service, construction trades and logging. At the other end of the scale, corporate profits were up, and business investment for the first six months stood a fat 48.6% above...
...little late in the game for anyone to sing the old complaint that the Yanks win because their fat pocketbook buys the best players. There they were in front, without a single 20-game pitcher. (Whitey Ford, their best man, has a record of 18-5, has never had a 20-game season.) What they boasted was an abundance of fine fielders, men who could hold their own at the plate, men who for the most part had come up through the Yankee farm system. And there was an inexhaustible bench full of reserves...
...Sarnoff (TIME, Dec. 19). But he soon discovered that his part of the teamwork gave him a lot of spare time for balancing exercises on the bongo board he kept in his office (see cut). Last week Weaver knew that the time to boost himself had come. With a fat NBC severance check for his unexpired contract in his pocket. Weaver resigned, touching off one of the biggest NBC shake-ups in years. As a prologue to further resignations or shifts to come, Sarnoff named from NBC ranks four new executive vice presidents who will report directly...