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Wise Founder Higginson had taken other steps to insure stability. In 1903, he set up a musicians' pension plan, the first in any U.S. orchestra. That is one reason why Boston Symphony musicians stay around and learn how to play together. Eleven men have been in the orchestra 30 years or more, another 40 men more .than 20 years...
...week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...
...mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
...begins Mass at 5:30. Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a half to say it because he often groans, weeps or passes into a state of ecstasy. After Mass he begins hearing confessions of the streams of men & women who wait through the night at the church door in all kinds of weather. Confessions are finished at 1 in the afternoon; then the bearded Capuchin sits down to his single meal of the day: a bunch of herbs and a few small pieces of bread...
Replies from two men's colleges indicated that Harvard might have to carry the proposed public service plan alone. William F. Buckley, Chairman of the Yale Daily News, expressed doubts that "Yale men would subject inamoratas to Eli showers which flow hotter and colder than women's emotions and with less provocation...