Word: fees
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned up in Saratoga at the races. . . Divorced at last were Lois De Fee (6 ft. 2 in.) and Billy Curtis (4 ft.), married as a publicity stunt...
Besides getting such talent as Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, Claudette Colbert all for a minimum fee of $35 (required by the rules of the American Federation of Radio Artists), and having as its theme song Any Bonds Today? by the indefatigably patriotic Irving Berlin, the show has the advantage of costing the Treasury nothing. Its time, music, actors are paid for by Texas Corp., which is due to shell out some $195,000 before the program vacates CBS. On NBC, Bendix Aviation Corp. will put up the money...
...expect to get far in radio. But his slow, earnest voice and competent reporting from the world's political hot spots made his name. Now he is cashing in on the by-products of his reputation. Besides his take from writing and broadcasting, he is getting a fee reported to be around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that...
...prominent collegians recommended by college administrators, it picked 32 by means of a history test.* Mrs. Roosevelt invited them to the big, rambling Campobello house, scurried round to collect beds for the 29 boys and girls from 25 colleges who eventually showed up. Each paid a $60 fee for the five-week session...
When Mutual signed with ASCAP last May, it offered to ASCAP 3% of its gross receipts, but its contract gives it the privilege of scaling down this fee to match any more favorable deal rival networks might make with ASCAP. CBS was still outside the fold last week, but it seemed likely to follow NBC's suit, sign up with ASCAP at drastically reduced fees. ASCAP went to war full of steam and confidence...