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...date, a little more than $492,835,02 has been paid toward the June total...
After a long period of winter hibernation, John L. Lewis issued forth to make a proud pronouncement: in 20 months the United Mine Workers' Welfare and Retirement Fund (now fed by a 20? rake-off on every ton of coal mined) had paid out $68 million. Among other things, the fund had put 11,689 retired miners on $100-a-month pensions...
Novelist Somerset Maugham, visiting friends in San Francisco to celebrate his 75th birthday, had something pleasant to remember. "The nicest compliment ever paid me," he announced, "was a letter from a G.I. in the Pacific during the war, who wrote me that he had read an entire story of mine without having to look up a single word in the dictionary...
...woman who wears her 50s with an air of long-faced gravity, Cissy learned her business the hard way: by getting trimmed the first time out. She paid $500 for a would-be Hildegarde of the pre-jazz era, only to discover, after the act had flopped, that the entertainer's usual price was $50. Now when Cissy sallies into Manhattan each year to forage for her annual purchases (up to $250,000 worth) of artistic merchandise (Rubinstein, Heifetz, et al.), New York managers jovially call to their secretaries to lock up the safe. Recently, when a drunk fell...
...visiting Easterner once quipped that "Los Angeles consists of 40 suburbs in search of a city." In the search, Greater Los Angeles supports the astonishing total of 258 newspapers-including five major dailies, 17 minor ones, 71 paid weeklies and 165 giveaways. The haphazard little community giveaways, which flourish in Los Angeles as nowhere else in the country, exist on the ads of local merchants, run only community news...