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...could not be easily seized by the company's creditors. On Wednesday the Braniff board of directors took the final decision to file for bankruptcy. At 5 p.m. employees were told unofficially to clean out their desks and not to come to work the next day, which was payday...
American Express received 80 Expressline questions in the first eight days of the program. The most common query: could the Dec. 28 payday be moved up to Dec. 24? The company has now changed the date...
...Thomas Hearns showdown is a reality, all the talk centers on what will happen after the fight. The New York Times reports that there will be three Leonard-Hearns fights. The Boston Globe promises that after he beats Hearns, Leonard will give middleweight champ Marvin Hagler a well-deserved payday. The New York Post claims that Leonard will retire after the September bout--win, lose or draw...
...years passed, wives and girlfriends drifted off. Newlove supported himself with typing jobs on Wall Street and low-paid reviewing for a weekly called Idle Hours. He cleaved to his fiction bottle and dreams of success. "On my weekly payday, having written five reviews and collected thirty dollars," he writes, "I'd shine my rotting shoes, press my crotchstinking, shinyassed pants, trim the fray from shirt and jacket, knot up my best greasy tie, pour down a tall wine or two for ballast, then subway uptown to The Forum of the Twelve Caesars or The Four Seasons...
...crime, a lot of good American towns, especially in the West, were built on nothing more dignified-or sinister, for that matter-than whisky and whorehouses. San Angelo, which now envelops the fort, got its start that way. Its economy in the first days grew robust upon soldiers' payday recreations and the gamy appetites of buffalo hunters. Susan Miles, 89, daughter of one of the earlier settlers, manages to sound both scandalized and amused about the town's atmosphere even after the fort closed down: "Big drinking meant big progress. I remember the painted girls riding around town...